Cukurca (Turkey)

Type: City

Name: Cukurca (Turkey)

Country: Turkey

Latitude: 37.2481

Longitude: 43.613602

population: 8,848

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Baghdad irked by PKK pullout from Turkey

Iraq has said it will not permit militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to remain on its soil as fighters from the group continued the second day of a withdrawal from Turkey to northern Iraq as part of an ongoing peace process.The ... [Published Turkish Daily - May 09 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Turkey, Iraq, Cukurca (Turkey)

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Peace amid hope and fear in Southeast

[News Analysis] Prospects for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to end its violence, which first began with its raids in Eruh and Şemdinli in southeastern Turkey in August 1984, has led to a celebratory environment in the country's Southeast, ... [Published Zaman - May 08 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Hakkari (Turkey), Land Forces, Security

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Kongra-Gel

BDP commissions to oversee PKK withdrawal

The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has announced that it will be assigning commissions to rural areas to oversee that the withdrawal of PKK militants continues smoothly. World Bulletin/News DeskKurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants will start withdrawing ... [Published World Bulletin - May 03 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Abdullah Ocalan, Yuksekova (Turkey), Cukurca (Turkey)

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Top general visits troops, bases at Iraq, Iran border

HAKKARİ - Doğan News AgencyTurkey’s Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel made a visit to the southeastern province of Hakkari’s Çukurca district on the border with Iraq yesterday, together with the army’s top commanders.Özel’s visit reportedly aimed ... [Published Turkish Daily - May 01 2013]

Entities: Cukurca (Turkey), Iraq, Kongra-Gel, Iran, Hakkari (Turkey)

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Turkish commander jailed for blast that killed seven soldiers

Brigadier General Zeki Es, who was tried for his alleged role in a mine blast in Turkey’s eastern province of Hakkari that killed seven soldiers in 2009, has been handed a prison sentence of six years and eight months for “causing the death of more than ... [Published Turkish Daily - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Hakkari (Turkey), General Staff, Subordination, Cukurca (Turkey), Major General

First reported Mar 08 2013 - Updated Mar 09 2013 - 1 reports

4 PKK members killed in landslide along Turkish-Iraqi border

ANKARA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Four members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed and two others injured in a landslide along the Turkish-Iraqi border in northern Iraq late Thursday, private Dogan News Agency reported Friday.The landslide, ... [Published Xinhua News Agency - Mar 08 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Landslide, Cukurca (Turkey), Turkey, Hakkari (Turkey)