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Banned Kurdish Group Declares Ceasefire With Turkey After 40 Years Of Fighting
The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency since 1984.
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Turkey Says 69 Kurdish Terrorists Killed In Southeastern Offensive
Sixty-nine Kurdish insurgents and two Turkish soldiers have been killed in four days of fighting across southeast Turkey as security forces ramp up operations against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), security sources and the military said on Saturday.
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Ten Kurdish Militants Killed as PKK Ceasefire Call Fails to Halt Clashes
Turkish security forces killed ten Kurdish militants during ground and air operations in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, the military said, days after the insurgents called a unilateral ceasefire.
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Kurds Take Ground From Islamic State in North Iraq
Kurdish forces said they drove Islamic State out of several villages near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Wednesday after U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeted insurgent positions overnight.
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Turkish Jets Hit Kurdistan Workers Party Targets in Iraq After Soldiers Killed: Sources
Turkey attacked Kurdish insurgent camps in Iraq for a second night on Sunday, security sources said, in a campaign that could end its peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
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Thousands Flee Into Turkey From Syria as Kurds Fight Islamic State
Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey today to flee a battle pitting Islamist insurgents against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.
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Kurds Warn of Massacre by Islamic State, Turkey Stops Short of Action
Kurdish fighters defending a Syrian border town warned on Friday of a likely massacre by Islamic State insurgents as the Islamists encircled the town with tanks and bombarded its outskirts with artillery fire.
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Turkey Vows Support for Besieged Syrian Town, But No Military Pledge
Turkey will do what it can to prevent the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, falling to Islamic State insurgents, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday, but stopped short of committing to military action.
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Turkey Will Try to Stop Islamic State From Taking Kurdish Border Town: PM Ahmet Davutoglu
Turkey will do whatever it can to prevent the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, falling to Islamic State insurgents, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday.
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Germany to Send Iraqi Kurds Enough Weapons For 4,000 Fighters
Germany will send enough weapons to arm 4,000 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq battling against Islamic State (IS) insurgents, whose advances threaten to destabilise the Middle East, the defence minister said on Sunday.
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Banned Kurdish Group Declares Ceasefire With Turkey After 40 Years Of Fighting
The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency since 1984.
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Turkey Says 69 Kurdish Terrorists Killed In Southeastern Offensive
Sixty-nine Kurdish insurgents and two Turkish soldiers have been killed in four days of fighting across southeast Turkey as security forces ramp up operations against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), security sources and the military said on Saturday.
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Ten Kurdish Militants Killed as PKK Ceasefire Call Fails to Halt Clashes
Turkish security forces killed ten Kurdish militants during ground and air operations in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, the military said, days after the insurgents called a unilateral ceasefire.
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Kurds Take Ground From Islamic State in North Iraq
Kurdish forces said they drove Islamic State out of several villages near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Wednesday after U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeted insurgent positions overnight.
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Turkish Jets Hit Kurdistan Workers Party Targets in Iraq After Soldiers Killed: Sources
Turkey attacked Kurdish insurgent camps in Iraq for a second night on Sunday, security sources said, in a campaign that could end its peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
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Thousands Flee Into Turkey From Syria as Kurds Fight Islamic State
Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey today to flee a battle pitting Islamist insurgents against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.
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Kurds Warn of Massacre by Islamic State, Turkey Stops Short of Action
Kurdish fighters defending a Syrian border town warned on Friday of a likely massacre by Islamic State insurgents as the Islamists encircled the town with tanks and bombarded its outskirts with artillery fire.
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Turkey Vows Support for Besieged Syrian Town, But No Military Pledge
Turkey will do what it can to prevent the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, falling to Islamic State insurgents, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday, but stopped short of committing to military action.
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Turkey Will Try to Stop Islamic State From Taking Kurdish Border Town: PM Ahmet Davutoglu
Turkey will do whatever it can to prevent the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, falling to Islamic State insurgents, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday.
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Germany to Send Iraqi Kurds Enough Weapons For 4,000 Fighters
Germany will send enough weapons to arm 4,000 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq battling against Islamic State (IS) insurgents, whose advances threaten to destabilise the Middle East, the defence minister said on Sunday.
