Sputnik - According to Turkish outlet Habertuk, the attack on a restaurant in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan was organised by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A source in an Iraqi security agency has told Sputnik that the Turkish deputy consul general in Iraq and two other diplomats have been killed in the city of Erbil as a result of ...

As many as 162 civilians have lost their lives over the past few months in Turkeys southeastern areas that are the scene of fighting between the army and members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a rights group says. TheHuman Rights Foundation of Turkeysaid late Saturday that 32 children, 29 women and 24 elderly people were among those killed ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian lawmaker has dismissed allegations that the Islamic republic supported militants of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Press TV reported Saturday. Mansour Haqiqatpour, deputy chairman of Iran's Majlis ( parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, made the remarks in response to recent allegations ...