However, since the 1980's Syria and Iraq, the southern neighbors of Turkey, have put forward some claims regarding the waters of Euphrates and Tigris originating from Turkey. These countries have tried various methods to hinder the workings on these rivers started by Turkey. Turkey states that ...
Syria’s tragic revolution-turned- civil-war provided the perfect cloak to ISIS ambitions. Under a general amnesty in early 2012, Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists were released from Assad prisons. Some regrouped with remnants of Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq and organised themselves into what has evolved as IS...
an, the president of Turkey In the midst of the conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the United States and its allies have been continuing to launch military operations in both Iraq and Syria, wherever they believed the militants to be active. While the U.S....
Turkey Says It Kills 15 Kurdish Militants in Syria and Iraq More ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said on Tuesday it had killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and two in Iraq, a sign that Ankara has pressed on with its campaign against fighters, some with possible links to U....
The Kurds are an ethnic group with their own language living in a region spanning present-day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has fought Turkey for autonomy for Kurds in a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1984. ...
Turkey, the second largest army in NATO after the U.S., is now fighting hard against the PKK on its soil but also in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
ANKARA, Turkey-- Turkey's deputy prime minister said Monday the number of Syrian refugees who've reached his nation in the past four days after fleeing the advance of militants from theIslamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)totaled 130,000. And, he said, that number could rise. ...
Analysis-Efforts to End Kurdish Militant Conflict in Turkey Face Syria Test More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) display flags with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, i...
“That Turkey is backing or is against a particular ethnic group or sect, whether in Syria or Iraq or in any other country in the region, is out of the question,” Erdogan said. Article content “We see every problem in our region from a position of peace, stability and loyalty.” ...
Speaking to the Birgun daily on Sunday, he accused the government of deeply damaging Turkey's prestige by having in the past allowed radical Islamists, including IS members, to pass on to Syria and Iraq via Turkey. Despite Turkish protests, Russia supports the YPG's participation in the Gene...