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The US State Department spokeswoman Thursday placated Turkey as she referred to Kurdish militia YPG in Afrin in Northern Syria as Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group blacklisted by Turkey and European countries and the US as terrorist. Ankara Saturday Read more
All foreign airlines operating at the Kurdistan capital Erbil airport will stop running flights as of Friday at the request of the Iraqi government which has decided to clampdown on the Kurdish controversial referendum with a landslide ‘Yes’ eager for Read more
President Masoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has revealed that the independence referendum scheduled for September 25 will be followed by presidential and parliamentary elections in November. The announcement is expected to increase the displeasure of Baghdad and Read more
Teheran has raised concerns at the plans to hold a cessation referendum by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) during a meeting at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Foreign Minister Zarif believes that the plan announced in Read more
Ankara has outlined that it will uphold its policies in the fight against terrorism despite the criticisms. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin accused some countries of double standards as he lamented that the “massacres” being carried out by armed Kurdish groups Read more
Following the announcement by Masoud Barzani, President of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq, of plans to hold a referendum on September 25 to decide on their independence, neighboring Turkey released a statement this Friday warning that going ahead as Read more
In build-up to a visit to Ankara, German Foreign Minister Sunday told a local media that Berlin is willing to defuse tension with Turkey and also promises to curb activities of the PKK in Germany. Sigmar Gabriel told the German Read more
The entire Turkish leadership establishment has rebuked US decision to supply arms to Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) fighting Daech in Syria with help of US air power. Ankara considers the Syrian group as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Read more
Turkey’s National Security Council has officially announced the end of its Euphrates Shield military operation into Syria and deemed it “successfully completed” in accomplishing the mission of “preventing the threat from Daesh and (enabling the) return of Syrian refugees to Read more
Iraqi first vice president Nuri al-Maliki who is on a working visit to Iran expressed his country’s readiness “to form a strong front against the enemies to confront possible plots after the ISIL.” Maliki met with Ali Akbar Velayati, a Read more