Special to WorldTribune.com Turkey is continuing to press its brutal siege on the Kurdish de facto capital. Kurds represent about 20 percent of Turkey’s population, and Kurdish fighters have been the only successful fighting force against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The months-long battle for Diyarbakir, a walled city on the Tigris […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Kurdish Workers Party is expected to complete its withdrawal from Turkey by July. Kurdish politicians said some 2,000 PKK fighters would withdraw from Turkey. The officials said PKK squads were steadily moving through southeastern Turkey for either Iraq and Syria. On June 3, Turkey’s military reported a PKK attack […]
