Kurdistan Workers' Party News

One Turkish police officer was killed and nine others were wounded today in a raid to capture a suspected Kurdish militant in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the governor's office said.

A Turkish official says 44 people suspected of planning terror attacks linked to Kurdish militants have been detained in police operations, including suspects in two separate Istanbul attacks last year.

The Turkish military launched artillery fire on the YPG in retaliation, destroying several targets belonging to the group.  

Turkey's political parties held mass rallies on Saturday, a week ahead of a referendum on whether to shift to the presidential system.

Turkey's justice minister says police have detained 18 people in connection with a foiled attack at a courthouse in the western city of Izmir that nevertheless killed a policeman and a courthouse employee.

Turkey sees the Kurdish Democratic Union Party and its People`s Protection Units militia as terror groups bent on carving out an autonomous region in Syria.

Five Turkish soldiers were killed today in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants in the restive southeast of the country, a local security source said.

Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed five Turkish soldiers in an ambush in the troubled southeast of the country, local media reported on Friday.

Turkey has waged an offensive against the PKK after the collapse in 2015 of a two-year ceasefire with the group that has been a thorn in its side for three decades.

A Turkish court detained five people overnight on suspicion of links to a March 13 suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 35, the Anatolia news agency reported today.

One of the suicide bombers who struck central Ankara at the weekend, killing 36 people, is believed to be a woman linked to Kurdish rebels, a Turkish official said today.

Seventy suspected members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in a vast operation against the group in the mainly Kurdish southeast over the past four days, the army said today.

Turkey's security forces killed 62 Kurdish militants in three days of operations in two mainly-Kurdish towns near the border with Iraq, the military said on Friday.

The Anadolu Agency said today 22 rebels were killed in Cizre and one other was killed in Silopi in the past two days.

The party founded by strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had around 51 percent of the vote with more than 80 percent of ballots counted.

Turkey votes on Sunday in its most crucial election in years.