Outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have ended a unilateral cease-fire in Turkey that they declared last month, a news agency close to the group cited a Kurdish umbrella group as saying Nov. 5
A senior U.S. commander based in Baghdad, Iraq, for the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said his country, as of now, was not providing arms to the People’s Protection Units (YPG)
18 Christian institutions by joint statement have accused PYD and YPG of violating human rights, seizing private property, recruiting by force, imposing tax unlawfully, and intervening in curriculum of churches.
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said there was “no change” in his party’s stance opposing a transition of the Turkish government from the current parliamentarian system to a presidential one, nor was there any cause for such a shift
An investigation has been launched against 26 journalists and columnists including Özgür Gündem newspaper Co-Chief Editors Eren Keskin and Hüseyin Aykol with the charge of “making propaganda for organization”.
Ankara has welcomed a U.S. statement that the country is not currently providing arms to the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military force protecting the northern Syrian region of Rojava
Turkey to print copies of Quran ‘24/7’ to send to Muslim countries
Turkey’s top cleric has said his Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) will print copies of the Quran “24/7” to send to Muslims in other countries
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