Sources: BBC
Jailed Kurdish leader and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan calls for an end to the conflict with Turkey and asks the group to disarm and disband, amid peace efforts between the Turkish government and the PKK led by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. 2025-02-27
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
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
An appeals court in Turkey hands opposition Peoples' Democratic Party MP Burcu Çelik Özkan a sentence of more than seven years in prison for terrorism propaganda. She had previously received a six-year sentence for pro-Kurdistan Workers' Party activity, but the case has been retried following an appeal. 2018-04-10
Fighting continues to rage between the Turkish Army and PKK militants across southeastern Turkey, with the Kurdish-majority cities of Cizre and Silopi both becoming war zones as street-to-street fighting takes place. Turkish tanks shelled civilian houses in Silopi, while a Turkish military helicopter was damaged by PKK fire as it attempted to land in Cizre. Also, two Turkish soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a roadside bombing near the town of Bitlis. Many within Turkey are saying a civil war is now underway. 2015-12-21
Clashes between Turkish government troops and Kurdish rebels at a Turkish border post in the southeastern province of Hakkâri kill at least 19 people, including 11 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party. 2012-08-5
Turkey claims that the Syrian Army has opened fire on a refugee camp on Turkish soil injuring three people. 2012-04-9
Turkish air force strikes kill four members of the PKK in Northern Iraq. [http:--old.news.yahoo.com-s-nm-20110904-wl_nm-us_turkey_kurds (Yahoo)]date=August 2019 2011-09-5
12 members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party and 3 Turkish soldiers are killed in clashes in southeast Turkey. 2010-07-6
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