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Kongra-Gel

Type: Organization

Name: Kongra-Gel (KADEK, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, Freedom and Democracy Congress of Kurdistan, People's Congress of Kurdistan, The People's Defense Force, Halu Mesru Savunma Kuvveti)

Nationality: Turkey

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Kongra-Gel

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Kongra-Gel

Settlement process, political campaigns

The settlement process has been going on without any problems so far. But efforts to derail the process continue to come from both inside and outside the country. The bombing attack in Hatay's Reyhanlı town showed how merciless and reckless are those ... [Published Zaman - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Democratic Society Party

What has the AK Party done on the Kurdish issue?

When the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) came to power on Nov. 3, 2002, the state of martial rule in the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey was reaching its 25th year. The state of emergency that was particular to southeastern Turkey ... [Published Turkish Daily - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Turkey, Martial Law, Democratic Society Party

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Justice and Development Party

Ruling party poll rate slightly fell to 51.5 percent: Source

The ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) poll rate fell from 52.9 percent to 51.5 percent in March, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told his party’s Central Executive Board (MYKY), according to sources.In their meeting on May 22, several topics ... [Published Turkish Daily - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Justice and Development Party, Kongra-Gel, Peace Process

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Iranian deputy minister in Ankara for Syria, PKK talks

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi was in Ankara on May 23 for a meeting with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, with the Syrian crisis and withdrawal of members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) at the top of the agenda.Araqchi’s ... [Published Turkish Daily - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Ankara, Iran, Syria, Ahmet Davutoğlu

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

PYD leader says would like to meet with MİT

/TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBULSalih Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the political offshoot of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Syria, has said the PYD would very much like to meet with Turkey's National Intelligence Organization ... [Published Zaman - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Turkey, Guerrilla, Salih Muslim, National Intelligence Organization of Turkey (MIT)

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 3 reports

Abdullah Ocalan

BDP delegation readying to pay 6th visit to İmralı

/TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBULA delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) is getting ready to pay its sixth visit to İmralı Island -- where Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is in prison -- as part ... [Published Zaman - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Abdullah Ocalan, İstanbul, Terrorist Group

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Yasar Buyukanit

Local court insists on gang membership sentences for Şemdinli suspects

A Turkish criminal court has insisted upon prison sentences for membership in a terrorist organization formed to commit a crime for three men convicted of murder in the trial of a 2005 bookstore bombing in the southeastern district of Şemdinli, despite ... [Published Zaman - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Supreme Court, Yasar Buyukanit, Bombing, Terrorist Group

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 4 reports

Kurdish guards fear for jobs and lives when Turkey and PKK make peace

Paramilitaries reviled by compatriots face losing their livelihoods and possibly their lives if Ankara cuts them adrift at end of war Sitting in front of a small stone cabin on top of a hill overlooking green valleys, with the snow-capped Hakkari mountain ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 22 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Hakkari (Turkey), Turkey, Mustafa Can, Peace Process

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Iran embassy protests to Turkish daily article

Ankara, May 23, IRNA – Iranian embassy in Turkey protested to the Yeni Safak Daily over publishing an article claiming Iran has negative influence on the peace process between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). ... [Published Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Iran, protest, Kongra-Gel

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Negotiating with the TTP

PRESTON, UK: This is in connection with Ejaz Haider’s article “Beware of negotiating with the TTP” carried in your newspaper on May 22. America, the superpower with an estimated 100,000 soldiers, Nato with a further 50,000 soldiers, plus the Afghan Army ... [Published The Express Tribune - May 22 2013]

Entities: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Kongra-Gel, Ejaz Haider, Riaz Ahmad, Asymmetrical Warfare

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Kurds seek equal citizenship in solution process

According to extensive research on the settlement process regarding Turkey’s Kurdish question, Kurds in Turkey seek equal citizenship ... World Bulletin/News DeskThe International Cultural Studies Center (UKAM) has made public the results of its extensive ... [Published World Bulletin - May 22 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Turkey, Nationalist Movement Party (TR), Republican People's Party (TR)

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

TURKEY, PEACE TALKS AND THE KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY (PKK)

That this House welcomes the start of direct talks between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan as offering the prospect of a peaceful political resolution of the Kurdish conflict that has raged on for nearly ... [Published United Kingdom Parliament - May 22 2013]

Entities: Kongra-Gel, Peace Talks, Turkey

Quotes

Obama praised Turkey's ` "progress' under Erdogan, who has locked up"

Burma and Turkey: Obama's Muslim Human Rights Double Standard [Published Groong - 15 hours ago]

...After all these years, we need to be part of the peace process also," Yildiz said. "The government cannot just ignore us. They need to realise that a hungry man is a hundred times more dangerous than any PKK fighter."

Kurdish guards fear for jobs and lives when Turkey and PKK make peace [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 22 2013]

Before the Syrian revolution such meetings were unthinkable. "For 30 years we Syrian Kurds have been fighting for our rights," Abdullah says. "That's why so many of our friends have been arrested and tortured to death by the regime." The ruling Baath Party denied the Kurds all basic rights. In the 1960s, 20 percent of the two million Kurds in Syria had their citizenship revoked

A Kurdish Spring in Syria [Published NOW News - May 22 2013]

According to the article, "there were several debates at Dutch mosques and by Islamic groups in the Netherlands over whether jhad was legal."

Kurds fighting with Islamists in Syria- report [Published World Bulletin - May 22 2013]

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TURKEY, PEACE TALKS AND THE KURDISTAN WORKERS P... [Published United Kingdom Parliament - May 22 2013]
Barzani issues stern warning and PYD backs down [Published Sabah - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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David L. Phillips: Remove the PKK From the Terr... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - May 21 2013] President Barack Obama and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a daunting agenda when they met at the White House last week. The Syria crisis was top of the list. The peace process between Turkey and the PKK was also a priority. Read More... ...
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Audio/Video

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German Kurds plan their return home [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 08 2013]
PKK fighters in Turkey to withdraw to Iraq [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 08 2013]

Press Releases

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