Tag Archives: OCCUPATION
August 15, PKK and continued massacre of Kurdish children during its 39 years of fruitless conflict
During these 39 years, August 15 is the day that the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK started armed activity against the military under the orders of Ankara. Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, who before the military coup of 1980 preferred to escape and fled to Syria and Lebanon along with his wife […]
Turkey has the largest presence in Iraq and is occupying more lands
In the past two weeks, Turkish forces have occupied new areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The new Turkish military campaign is part of the Turkish expansion plan led by the country’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The new campaign began with the same old pretext – to “end” the presence of the […]
Video file / A Yazidi tribal chief addresses the PKK: Leave Shangal
“The presence of the PKK in Sinjar/Shangal is a great danger to the lives and property of the people. We know that the Turkish army may attack from the air or on the ground at any moment. Why should the people be victim because of the presence of the PKK?” “Should the people be killed […]
Ismail Besikci: PKK deliberately wants Turkey to enter deep the KRG
Ismail Beşikçi, a Turkish thinker and sociologist known for defending the rights of the Kurds in Turkey, has repeatedly accused Abdullah Ocalan of opposing Kurdish interests, referred, in a short interview, to Turkey’s actions on the border with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and said: “Kurdistan Region should not become a battleground between Turkey and […]