TEHRAN, oct 20_President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will “implement its own plans” if Ankara and Moscow fail to find a solution to the presence of Syrian government forces in a “safe zone” that his country seeks to establish in northern Syria, warning also that Ankara will “crush the heads” of Kurdish militants if a deal with Washington on withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the region is not fully implemented.
TEHRAN, August 5- Turkey has strongly called on the United States to stop supporting a Kurdish militant group in northern Syria as Ankara and Washington held their latest round of talks on the issue aimed at preventing a fresh Turkish cross-border invasion into the Arab country.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 -US President Donald Trump holds talks with his Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the establishment of a militant-free safe zone in northern Syria, shortly after he threatened to “devastate” NATO ally Turkey economically if it attacks Kurdish militants following Washington’s military withdrawal from the Arab state.
Massud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has secured the most seats in the semi-autonomous region's parliament, the local electoral commission says.
TEHRAN, July 23 -Kurdish security forces have killed three gunmen who stormed the governorate building in the city of Erbil in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and took hostages.
TEHRAN, March 12 -Hundreds of protesters marched through the city center of Hamburg on Sunday to denounce the Turkish military operation in the Kurdish-dominated enclave of Afrin in northern Syria.
TEHRAN, January 28 - The Kurdish forces pulled down the US flag in their bases in Northern Raqqa near the border with Turkey after Washington showed reluctance to give the Kurds active protection against the Turkish army attacks, news sources disclosed.
TEHRAN, November 5 -German police officers were injured in a pro-Kurdish rally during which activists were demanding the release of the jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party.
TEHRAN, October 30 -The parliament of the Iraqi Kurdish region has approved a request by Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), not to renew his term when it expires on November 1.
TEHRAN, October 25-Turkish president Recep Erdogan said Ankara’s operation in Syria’s Idlib province is largely over, but new military targets could lie ahead, with the Syrian Kurdish forces of northern Aleppo, with an allegedly vast “terrorist” element, possibly in Turkey’s crosshairs.
TEHRAN, October 18 -After the Iraqi army took over Kirkuk, Baghdad has said that Kurdish independence is “a thing of the past” and the controversial referendum should be forgotten, as the UN says 61,000 people have fled the northern city of Kirkuk.
TEHRAN, October 16 - Iraqi security forces have launched a "major operation" in the Kurdish-held region of Kirkuk, advancing towards oil fields and a strategic military base, according to Kurdish and Iraqi officials.
TEHRAN, October 15 - Kurdish troops in Iraq have rejected a call from governmental forces to withdraw from a strategic location in Kirkuk’s southern region.
TEHRAN, October 7 -Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Ankara intends to open a new border crossing with Iraq in cooperation with the central government in Baghdad after the Anatolian country closed the existing crossing in response to last week’s controversial referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, October 1-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied Turkey’s accusation that the regime was involved in a recent controversial secession referendum in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, September 23 -A senior Iranian official has expressed the Islamic Republic’s opposition to an upcoming referendum for independence by Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, saying that Tehran supports the Arab country’s territorial integrity.
TEHRAN, July 6, YJC -The head of a US-backed Kurdish militant group fighting in Syria says a confrontation is likely “within days” between his fighters and the Turkish forces recently deployed to Syria’s Aleppo Province.
TEHRAN, June 11, YJC -The Iranian Foreign Ministry has expressed Tehran’s opposition to a “unilateral” plan by Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to hold an independence referendum, stressing the importance of maintaining integrity and stability in the Arab country.