Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Kurdish Workers Party has scheduled the launch of a military withdrawal from Turkey on May 8. A senior commander said the PKK, headed by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan, would pull out units from Turkey should Ankara suspend all counter-insurgency operations. Murat Karayilan, who controls the PKK base in northern […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Turkish intelligence community has determined that up to 2,000 Kurdish rebels were operating in the country. Security sources said the intelligence community was ordered to issue an assessment of how many operatives of the Kurdish Workers Party were deployed in Turkey. They said the community estimated the number at […]
