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FRANCE 06/11/2013 Final chapter closes for De Villiers France’s intelligence community read him religiously, many of his friends were spies and his thrillers are chock full of nods, [...]
UNITED STATES TURKEY 23/10/2013 CIA versus Turkey's MIT? The ever-widening gap between the interests of the United States and Turkey, particularly over Syria, have sown tension between their intelligence agencies. [...]
SYRIA 11/09/2013 Ankara’s Turkish jihadist brigade Free To combat the Syrian Kurdish movement PYD, which occupies part of the border between Syria and Turkey, Turkey has encouraged [...]
TURKEY 24/07/2013 PKK appoints new security chiefs While the PKK pursues its negotiations with the Turkish government [...]
SYRIA 10/07/2013 Intra-Kurdish conflict flares Fighting has intensified in north-eastern Syria since the beginning of [...]
TURKEY 15/05/2013 Erdogan curbs police role Free Engaged in risky negotiations with the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is keen to ensure [...]
TURKEY 27/03/2013 PKK's phantom brigades The amnesty that Turkey is negotiating with the PKK only takes into account Turkish nationals, leaving the fate of foreign Kurdish separatist fighters up in the air. [...]
SYRIA 27/02/2013 Syrian Kurds do u-turn After fighting alongside the Syrian Army since the start of the Syrian crisis, the Yekineyen Parastina Gel (YPG), the armed [...]
TURKEY 14/11/2012 MIT takes military turn Turkey’s MIT has become increasingly engaged in operations against the PKK Kurdish separatist movement and it is developing its own paramilitary service. [...]
UNITED STATES TURKEY 31/10/2012 US touts plan to deal with PKK Washington is pushing Ankara to negotiate with the PKK. However hard-line Kurdish separatists are opposed to negotiation. [...]
IRAQ SYRIA 03/10/2012 Nouri al-Maliki ups stakes in Syria Alongside Iran, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has offered his full support to Damascus, despite the risk that this could pull Iraq into a regional conflict. [...]
UNITED STATES 03/10/2012 Helicopters to fight PKK The US is stepping up its engagement against the PKK Kurdish separatist movement alongside Turkey's military. Last week, the US [...]
TURKEY 03/10/2012 Erdogan's bodyguards clash On the eve of the congress of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) on September 30, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip [...]
TURKEY UNITED STATES 19/09/2012 Martin Dempsey Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of [...]
IRAN TURKEY 19/09/2012 Intelligence services clash over Iran The Turkish police force’s intelligence branch, which is in charge of counter-terrorism and the fight against the PKK, and the [...]
TURKEY 22/08/2012 Syrian Kurds stage PKK putsch The support that Damascus is providing to the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has upset the balance of power between the [...]
UNITED STATES TURKEY 22/08/2012 Kurdish rep goes to Washington Playing middleman between the United States and PKK Kurdish rebels, [...]
UNITED STATES TURKEY KURDISTAN 18/07/2012 CIA, MIT merge Kurdish services Increasingly active in Iraqi Kurdistan, Washington and Ankara will oversee the merger of Kurdistan's intelligence services into a single structure. [...]
UNITED STATES SYRIA TURKEY 04/07/2012 Kurds the last to stand by Assad The Syrian regime is still holding the north and east of the country thanks to backing from armed Kurdish groups like the PKK and Democratic Union Party. Washington and Ankara are seeking to push the Kurds aside. [...]
UNITED STATES KURDISTAN 20/06/2012 Washington changes Kurdistan strategy The United States, which has been the principal support to Turkey in its operations against the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, [...]
