Articles About Terrorist Activities

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U.S. military chief said Tuesday intelligence sharing between Turkey and the United States against the terror organization PKK would continue under President Barack Obama’s administration.

Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Washington Press Center that the focus on intelligence sharing with respect to the cooperation between the two countries last year has been very important.    

“I see no indication that that it won’t continue,” he added.  Read the rest of this entry »

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An Iraqi Kurdish commander called on the terror organization PKK lay down arms and leave northern Iraq, which it uses as a base to launch cross-border attacks into Turkey.

“The PKK must realize the fact that it will not achieve anything by resorting to arms. Kurds cannot gain their freedom by killing two or three soldiers from Turkey and Iran,” Mam Rostam, an Iraqi Kurdish commander in northern Iraq, was quoted by Anatolian Agency as saying.

Rostam said the terrorist activities of the PKK endanger Kurdish people living both in Turkey and Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

 Turkey’s military said troops killed 696 outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK militants in clashes in 2008.

Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Metin Gürak said another 237 were captured, while 177 surrendered last year. Gürak said Friday 171 security personnel - including soldiers, police and government-paid village guards - were also killed fighting PKK.

There was no immediate comment from the PKK about the death toll. The group however, has denied the military’s death toll in the past. Turkey last year launched several air force attacks and one major ground operation against the PKK bases in northern Iraq. The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, including the European Union and the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

KANDİL - Turkish and Iranian artillery have pounded Kurdish separatist positions in Iraq’s northern mountains for the past two days, a spokesman for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said Wednesday.

“Turkish artillery shelled the Sidikan district, near where the Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish borders meet, but inside Iraq,” spokesman Ahmed Denis told AFP. He had no immediate word on casualties.

PKK rear-bases in border districts of northern Iraq have been the target of repeated attack by the Turkish and Iranian militaries in recent weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

AFP

Police have detained eight suspects over a bomb attack last month on the offices of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in Istanbul, the Anatolia news agency said yesterday.

A little known leftist group, the Revolutionary Command, believed to have links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the Dec. 1, 2008 blast in which a policeman was killed. The home-made shrapnel bomb exploded at the entrance to the AKP’s Istanbul headquarters, leaving nine other people injured. Read the rest of this entry »

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Turkish and Iranian artillery shelled terror organization targets in northern Iraq during the past two days, news agencies reported on Wednesday.

Turkish artillery shelled the Sidikan district, near where the Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish borders meet, a member of the terror organization PKK told AFP.

“Yesterday and today, the villages of Rizka, Maradu and Kanira, close to the Iranian border, were periodically bombarded by the Iranians,” he added. Read the rest of this entry »

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Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said they had launched all necessary initiatives to prevent the terrorist PKK organization from broadcasting abroad, in response to a question motion submitted to Parliament yesterday.

He explained that activities of the channel ROJ TV were banned in Germany in 2008. “We have been launching all necessary initiatives to ban propaganda activities of the PKK,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

AFP

Massoud Barzani, president of the northern Iraqi Kurdish administration, has met with Turkish envoys in the wake of a spate of bombings by Ankara in Iraq’s northern region, his office said yesterday.

Barzani and Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Murat Özçelik met in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil to discuss cooperation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a statement from the president’s office said.

“This visit came to prepare the ground for further dialogue with regard to the problems between the Kurd region and Turkey and working to solve this problem and tension,” said Safin Dizayi, foreign affairs head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK. Turkish negotiators are expected to return to the Kurdish region at a later date, said Dizayi, whose PUK party is led by Jalal Talabani, the president of Iraq, without giving details.

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Thirty-three people were detained Monday in five provinces in Turkey during simultaneous operations conducted against the PKK terror organization.

The suspects were captured in simultaneous operations conducted in Istanbul, the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir and Sirnak, the southern provinces of Adana and Mersin, the Dogan News Agency reported.

The operations were carried out to end the terror organization’s method of recruiting the young, Mersin Governor Huseyin Aksoy and police chief Suleyman Ekizer told a joint press conference in the southern province.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, including the EU and the United States.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Turkey’s special envoy to Iraq, Murat Ozcelik, discussed security issues, including the Iraqi-U.S. security pact with Massoud Barzani, the leader of the regional administration in northern Iraq, Peyamner News Agency (PNA) reported on Sunday.

The strategic security pack between Iraq and United States, relations between Iraq and Turkey, and recent incidents in the Iraqi parliament, were discussed in the meeting, the report said.

Ozcelik also met with Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of the region, in the Selahaddin province of northern Iraq, the Iraqi Kurdish PNA also reported. Read the rest of this entry »