Articles About Terrorist Activities

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday that they conducted intense talks with the central Iraqi government as well as with the regional administration in north of Iraq in order to end the presence of the terrorist organization PKK in Iraq.

Speaking to the Turkish Parliamentary Budget Committee on the 2012 budget of his ministry, Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey would continue to increase pressure on Iraqi authorities in order to end PKK’s presence and activities in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkey will raise the pressure on both Arbil and Baghdad to further cooperate in its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Turkish foreign minister said yesterday. “While launching an intensified and deep relationship with all segments of Iraq, we have also intensified our contacts with the Iraqi central government and northern Iraqi regional government for the full elimination of the terror organization from Iraq,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkish security forces killed a PKK terrorist who hijacked a ferry with 18 passengers aboard in a pre-dawn operation on Saturday, a Turkish official said. No one else was hurt in the operation.

The terrorist hijacked the Kartepe ferry Friday evening around 5:45 p.m., taking hostage the passengers including five women as well as four crew members and two trainees.

Istanbul Governor Huseyin Mutlu said the hijacker was shot dead right after the forces boarded the ferry, adding that there was no fire fight. Read the rest of this entry »

EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış has urged European countries to cooperate with Turkey in its counterterrorism efforts against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which he claimed was “the largest human and illicit drug trafficking network in Europe,” a comment that came on top of piling resentment of Turkish officials toward Europe for indirectly financing the organization.
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A Paris court on Wednesday concluded a case against 18 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) charged with extortion to raise funds for a terrorist organization, handing down prison sentences for 17 of the 18 suspects and ruling in favor of the closure of a cultural center known to be a PKK base in France. Read the rest of this entry »