By Simon Kent. The New York Times has reported on a Turkish incursion in the mountains of Northern Iraq to destroy Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) positions. The incursion comes in response to a recent IED attack inside Turkey which killed 14 police officers in a mini bus. The raids--20 military strikes according to the report--have […]
Evidence collected by Amnesty International in a fact-finding mission indicates that multiple Turkish government airstrikes killed eight residents and injured at least eight others – including a child - in a flagrantly unlawful attack on the village of Zergele, in the Kandil Mountains in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The airstrikes on 1 August were […]
By Patrick Schmidt. With tensions rising once again between the Turkish central government and the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurds are now more concerned about their own relationship with the Turkish leadership. Despite this concern, Iraqi Kurds do not agree with all the claims made by the Turkish government about the PKK. Kurdistan’s Foreign […]
Turkey's military is denying allegations that its air strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets have hit civilians. The President of Iraq's Kurdish region has accused Ankara of killing civilians in air raids in the north. He has asked the PKK to leave the region, but the violence continues. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports:
The Washington DC-based think tank the Bipartisan Policy Centre (BPC) says the United States must look for a new reliable strategic partner such as the Kurds, to replace Turkey, as Turkey is no longer a dependable ally. According to the BPC, Turkey has failed to secure the length of its 560 mile with Syria against the […]
This article was originally published by Niqash. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Matter of National Security? The Turkish-Kurdish 'Secret Agreement' An 18-month-old “secret agreement” between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey goes for 50 years and potentially affects national security and oil exports. Nobody […]
By John Lee. Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz said today that agreements with Iraqi administrations open the door for Turkish oil exploration in Iraqi Kurdistan: "We have agreements with Baghdad and [the government in] northern Iraq ... In the frame of these agreements, we will explore for oil there ... "There can be an additional […]
By John Lee. The BBC's Jim Muir has reported from the front lines at Bakarta in the Kurdish region of Iraq, where Kurdish Peshmerga troops have retaken villages lost to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Interestingly, Muir reports from a hill on the front lines that the Kurds seized from ISIL, […]
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have arrived in northern Iraq as part of a peace deal with Turkey. The pact, which was signed in March, ended a decades-long conflict that killed about 40,000 people. Al Jazeera's Omar Al Saleh reports from the Iraqi border with Turkey, where he was given access to one of the PKK's […]
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The first group of Kurdish fighters leaving Turkey as part of a peace drive with Ankara arrived to handshakes and embraces in Iraqi Kurdistan early Tuesday after a gruelling week-long journey. (Source: AFP)
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Turkey is edging closer to ending its 30-year conflict with the PKK. The separatist group is withdrawing as part of a peace process. The first group of fighters has now arrived in Iraq. […]
From Iran’s PressTV. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The withdrawal of Kurdistan Workers' Party militants into Iraq's Kurdistan Region has raised controversy in Baghdad. PKK militants are leaving Turkey and moving to Kurdistan under an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government. […]
