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A new generation of dissatisfied and radical Kurds could easily unleash a cycle of violence that even the PKK might be unable to control.

The question of where to park the top PKK cadres is being weighed: Norway and Australia are among the options.

The city's mayor said the hijacker had told the crew he was a member of the Kurdish militant group, the PKK.

As he spoke, Turkish warplanes continued to pound PKK bases inside Iraq.

He said they would reassess counter-terrorist measures and continue the fight against terrorist organization PKK with determinism.

Turkey insists that many were PKK operatives trying to establish "a parallel state" in the Kurdish region.

At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in a clash with Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party. or PKK.

The PKK has threatened to call off its recently declared unilateral ceasefire unless Mr Erdogan moves on Kurdish rights.

He said two soldiers were missing and 23 members of the PKK were killed during the attack.

Conspiracy theorists also point to evidence of a "deep state" that prolongs the fight against the PKK by staging terrorist acts itself.

Meanwhile the PKK, in a statement, said its fighters would defend the Kurds and their interests to "the last drop of blood" .

The BDP looks less like the political wing of the rebels; instead, the PKK now looks like the BDP's armed wing.

Last week, in response to a Kurdish PKK attack on its forces, Turkey launched a major offensive against the Kurdish rebels.

In recent months the PKK has stepped up its attacks, killing dozens of Turkish soldiers in and beyond the predominantly Kurdish south-east.

But what better moment to enlist U. S. help against the PKK than when Washington's fears of a damaging rift with Ankara are at their height?

Many Iraqi Kurds do not believe Turkey's claim that it is motivated only by the raids of PKK fighters.

But a string of leaks about attempted coups and botched operations against the PKK have dented the generals' image.

On top of this, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside Turkey also once tried to train female suicide commandos .

The conflict with the PKK, which is fighting for greater Kurdish rights, has been steadily escalating over the last couple of months.

The attack, which happened in broad day light, is the first since the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, ended a ceasefire in February.

Residents began to flee when the PKK started raiding the area demanding food and shelter.

Turkey needs to stop the common practice in the south-east of arresting and jailing elected mayors for allegedly expressing PKK sympathies.

Founded in 1978 by a clutch of Turkish university students, the PKK rapidly became one of the world's deadliest guerrilla armies.

After 12 years of captivity Mr Ocalan is, for now, easing his iron grip on the PKK (and, by extension, the BDP).

Now the PKK is suggesting that it wants to open a dialogue with Turkish government.

These include recognising the Kurds' regional government in Iraq and introducing a more liberal amnesty for PKK fighters.

Yet poor education and infrastructure, a deeply conservative Muslim culture and the violence of the PKK continue to discourage investment.

You also describe the PKK as fighting for "an independent Kurdish state" , a sentiment that all but condones the killing of Turks.

Blame was directed against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), but it denied responsibility.

Erdogan said he was saddened to learn that 15 soldiers were killed and 20 others were wounded in an assault by the PKK terrorists.

For all his grandstanding about seeking a better deal for the Kurds, Abdullah Ocalan, the captive PKK leader, also seems on board.

Even if he does, the PKK will keep raising the bar because it wants to be a party to the solution.

Such operations against the PKK have been enhanced by U. S. intelligence information.

Meanwhile, the PKK is threatening to end its truce and to carry its insurgency to the cities unless the BDP deputies are freed.

The Black Widows of Chechnya and the female suicide bombers of the PKK are more in numbers than the males committing such fierce actions.

The PKK has traditionally maintained bases in the remote mountains in the north of Iraq, near the Turkish border.

PKK attack in the province of Tokat that killed seven Turkish soldiers was the final straw.

A female PKK fighter called Gulistan says that "dying in our leader's service would be the greatest honour of all. "

Ankara accuses the PKK of using neighboring Northern Iraq as a base to launch strikes against its forces in Turkey.

Turkey stepped up its attacks on bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed separatist group, in northern Iraq.

America's refusal to take action against separatist rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq then fed Turkish anger.

But the opening ground to a halt following the return last October of 34 PKK fighters to Turkey from Iraq. More were meant to follow.

Western defense analysts estimate the PKK has a few thousand fighters based in Iraq.

In recent months, entrenched in northern Iraq, PKK attacks in Turkey continue to enter the military, police and kidnapped teachers.

The statement says operations against the PKK are continuing on both sides of the border.

Amid growing public anger at the PKK, Turkey started bombing the rebel group's bases in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

PKK that Turkey and Iran is its Joint Strike, and that they will work jointly to make Kurdistan Free Life Party hit back.

In response Turkish troops entered northern Iraq, hunting fighters from the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Analysts say the "Village Guards" militia is the key support element for the Turkish army in its war against the PKK.

the PKK issued a statement denying the planning bomb attacks in Taksim Square, and again extended a unilateral cease-fire period.

Authorities say the raids were aimed at the banned PKK party, which has been fighting the Turkish state for more than two decades.

Over the border, Turkish air raids on the PKK's mountain bases in northern Iraq are increasing.

Statement that Turkey would continue to combat PKK organization, until its eradication in northern Iraq.

Meanwhile, the military campaign against the PKK is intensifying.

The level of violence has declined somewhat, and the PKK has periodically declared ceasefires (one is in force now).

Instead of returning quietly home, the PKK men triumphantly paraded in uniform through the streets of Diyarbakir.

The Iraqi Kurds are talking of amnesty for PKK fighters born on their side of the border, Syria may do too.

According to local TV reports, quoting security officers, the bombings have the hallmark of the Kurdish separatist group the PKK.

And secret talks continue, if sporadically, between the government and Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned PKK leader.

About 300 Turkish troops move several kilometres into northern Iraq, local officials say, stepping up pressure on Kurdish PKK rebels there.

Others say that AK must talk to the PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Yet Turkey has enough trouble coping with the PKK, let alone getting embroiled in regime change.

The PKK was not surrendering to the government but the other way round, fumed Deniz Baykal, leader of the Republican People's Party.

With Syria's blessing, the PKK sent its men and women into Lebanon's Bekaa valley for training by Palestinian militants.

Yet many observers believe the Tokat attack was staged by PKK hardliners bent on sabotaging peace.

Van is a stronghold of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed group that has been fighting for autonomy since 1984.

The latest outbreak began a month ago, after the Turkish army killed 12 members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the Iraq border.

A vicious separatist campaign launched by rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK ) has been raging since 1984.

The PKK has extended its unilateral ceasefire until the election.

PKK terrorists are hoping to provoke Turkish troops into escalating the violence.

Syria has in the past harboured PKK fighters and occasionally hinted that it might revive that support.

The area is a stronghold of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been fighting for autonomy since 1984.

Over the past month clashes between the army and the PKK have escalated.

Despite such operations, retired Turkish general Haldun Solmazturk says the PKK still remains a serious threat.

Tensions are growing over Turkey's raid into Iraqi Kurdistan to root out the PKK.

Turkish troops continue to raid PKK bases, with the ground forces to suppress.

The PKK's leader, Abdallah Ocalan, is imprisoned in Turkey and has been sentenced to death on terror charges.

He says the PKK provoked Turks in 2009 when fighters returning from Iraq started delivering "victory" speeches.

The attack, according to Turkish media reports, lasted several hours and involved scores of PKK rebels using heavy weapons.

Since then, the earth the military on the fight against the PKK armed action.

June 3, PKK militants attacked a Turkish province of Tunceli, security forces, killing two soldiers.

The PKK has stepped up attacks after ending its unilateral cease-fire last month.

The PKK have been fighting the Turkish state, for Kurdish autonomy since 1984.

Worse, the PKK has threatened to end its unilateral ceasefire and take its battle to Turkey's cities if the government ignores its calls.

Indeed, the government's Kurdish policy is replete with risks, not least that the PKK could revert to urban terrorism.

Around 100 militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, attacked military posts.

Kurdistan Free Life Party close ties with the PKK, and has bases in Iraq.

One, Irfan Aktan, was sentenced to 15 months in prison in June for quoting a rebel of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Her scholarly, gripping account is based on interviews with, and the unpublished diaries of, former PKK militants.

We are ready for political solution. Bo-holds aldot, PKK's military commander tells us.

The army blamed Kurdish terrorists from the PKK rebel group.

Helped for many years by Syria, the PKK has since 1984 waged a long and violent campaign against the Turkish army and state.

A system of village guards was set up, supposedly to fight the PKK but as often to intimidate the locals.

Since 2007 America has been providing real-time intelligence on the PKK's movements inside Iraq.

Residentsbegan to flee when the PKK started raiding the area demanding food and shelter.

PKK rebels in 1984, the Turkish government began the divisive war.

More than 20 members of the PKK were also killed in the fighting.

Last month the PKK hit back by calling off its truce.

The PKK also says the government must talk to Abdullah Ocalan, its imprisoned leader.

On Thursday , Turkey carried out air strikes on 13 suspected PKK targets in the Zap region of northern Iraq .

The Turkish state has been fighting the PKK for more than 20 years.

The first is what to do about PKK fighters in northern Iraq.

None so violent or so long as that launched in 1984 by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

AK's "opening" , which was meant to lead to an amnesty for PKK rebels untainted by violence, has been shelved.

Last year, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group, detonated a roadside bomb in Istanbul's Halkali district.

It is the most serious attack by the PKK since last year.

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