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The Kurdistan Workers' Party claims responsibility for Wednesday's attack on the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara Province, Turkey, which killed five people and injured dozens of others, saying that the attack had been "planned for a long time".
2024-10-25

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Duhok Governorate, Iraq.
2024-09-9

Iraq's National Security Council formally bans the Kurdistan Workers' Party following a high-level meeting between Iraqi and Turkish officials in Baghdad, Iraq.
2024-03-14

A court in Turkey sentences opposition parliamentarian Remziye Tosun of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to ten years in prison for "membership in a terrorist organization" and "treating wounded Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members" during clashes in 2016. Her lawyer rejects the verdict.
2020-09-11

A car bomb, targeting an armored vehicle transporting police personnel, explodes close to a bus terminal in the Bağlar district of Diyarbakır, Turkey, killing at least seven police officers and wounding 27 more people, including 13 officers, according to a joint statement by Turkish officials and the police. The attack comes one day before Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's scheduled visit to the city. There has been no claim of responsibility. CNN points out both Kurdish rebels and ISIL militants have claimed similar recent incidents.
2016-03-31

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says military operations will continue in southeast Turkey and vowed that Kurdish rebels (PKK) along with their supporters, “will be buried in the trenches they have dug”. The state-run Anadolu Agency reports at least 115 PKK militants have been killed since December 15.
2015-12-21

A suicide attack by the PKK kills two Turkish Army soldiers and injures 24 others in the Turkish town of Doğubeyazıt in Ağrı Province near the Iran border.
2015-08-2

12 people are killed in an operation against PKK rebels in southeastern Turkey.
2012-03-22

Turkish warplanes carry out strikes against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq.
2012-02-12

Six Turkish soldiers are killed in a rocket attack on a navy base by suspected Kurdish rebels in the south of the country.
2010-05-31