The Latest Breaking News from PKK

Election authority reverses ejection of Kurdish winner of mayoral race in city of Van in eastern Turkey.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to end the threat posed by Kurdish rebel group the PKK, which has been fighting Turkey for decades. As Turkey prepares to launch a major military operation against the organisation in Iraq, it is looking to other governments in the region for support.

Turkey ratifies Sweden's NATO membership, bringing the Nordic nation closer to joining the military alliance. Hungary remains the only ally yet to ratify.

Attacks extend a surge in violence across Turkey’s southern border, as regional spillover of war in Gaza continues.

Hundreds of northeast Syrian villages and towns have lost power, with water supplies also affected, after Turkish strikes pounded electricity stations and infrastructure, the region's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration said Monday.

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Twelve Turkish soldiers were recently killed during fighting with banned Kurdistan Workers Party in northern Iraq.

Turkish air strikes killed eight civilians in Syria's Kurdish-held northeast Monday, a war monitor and local media said, as Ankara launched operations in Iraq and Syria following deadly attacks on its soldiers.

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