2023年8月8日 · Attacks in Turkey and clashes with Kurdish groups significantly increased in 2016. Keep track of the latest developments on the Center for Preventive Action’s Global Conflict Tracker.

Since the 1980s, Kurdish movements have included both peaceful political activities for basic civil rights for Kurds in Turkey as well as armed rebellion and guerrilla warfare, including military attacks aimed mainly at Turkish military bases, demanding first a separate Kurdish state and later self-determination for the Kurds. [15]

Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the current PKK–Turkey conflict.

Kurdish–Turkish relations covers the historical relations between Kurds and Turks. Relations began when Alp Arslan was seeking to pass through Kurdistan in order to conquer Anatolia. Kurds were already significantly Muslim, and were a buffer between the Muslim Middle East and the Christian Anatolia and South Caucasus.

2025年2月10日 · With between 5,000 and 10,000 armed fighters, the PKK directed attacks against government property, government officials, Turks living in the Kurdish regions, Kurds accused of collaborating with the government, foreigners, …

Currently, Kurds in Turkey face the challenge of retaining their cultural identity on their ancestral lands in the southeast region, while approximately 2 million Kurds living in Istanbul attempt to assimilate into a deeply nationalist Turkish culture predicated on the historical criminalization and repression of the Kurdish language. 82 It is ...

2019年10月15日 · The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and...

The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even an ...

2025年2月7日 · W ith a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been ...

2019年10月14日 · Why did Turkey invade? Why did America leave? How did the Kurds gain so much land? We answer 10 key questions about the Turkish invasion of northern Syria.