President Recep Tayyip Erdogan backs his interior minister, who has been facing allegations made by a Turkish mobster living abroad, and says he will not call early elections.
The Turkish media has trumpeted the killing of a high-ranking PKK militant by Turkish security forces in northern Iraq as a reprisal of the US support of the Syrian Kurdish groups, while Turkey seems to be a major blockade before Syrian Kurds’ desire for political recognition.
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There have been strong words coming out of Turkey ahead of a planned bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. Last week, a senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to “cut off the heads” of Turkey’s challengers and warned Biden: “This June’s (NATO summit) meeting is the last chance for our beloved ally, America.”
Erdoğan went even further, accusing Biden of having “blood on his hands” for supporting Israel. Any other world leader would simply cancel the talks, scheduled on the margins of the NATO summit on June 14.
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In January 2016, I paid a visit to Diyarbakir, the largest city and de facto capital of Turkey’s Kurdish-majority south-east. The previous month, its ancient centre, known as Sur, and more than a dozen other regional cities had been put under a 24-hour curfew as the Turkish military moved against the urban positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Labelled a terrorist group by the US, EU and Turkey, the PKK has fought an insurgency in the south-east since the mid-1980s. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) initiated a peace process with the militant group in 2013, which made considerable progress leading up to the June 2015 parliamentary elections.