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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Kurds Rally in Turkey in Solidarity with Detained MP

Kurds Rally in Turkey in Solidarity with Detained MP

Friday 25 January 2019
Ocalan, the head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Guven, 55, launched a hunger strike on November 8 to pressure the Turkish government into allowing lawyers and family members to visit Ocalan. Waving flags of the HDP, the demonstrators on Saturday flashed victory signs in suppor ...
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Erdogan’s Istanbul Loss: Big Warning But Not Tragic

Erdogan’s Istanbul Loss: Big Warning But Not Tragic

Wednesday 26 June 2019 ،
Ocalan is imprisoned for over 20 years by Turkey. The Iranian expert also talked about the significance of the mayoral elections, saying that they are known as the launching pad of the parties in Turkish politics. Erdogan himself first started power gain process by winning the Istanbul local electi ...
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Direct Assad-Erdogan Talks: What Are Necessary Grounds?

Direct Assad-Erdogan Talks: What Are Necessary Grounds?

Saturday 21 September 2019 ،
Ocalan, the head of the PKK, was expelled from northern Syria. However, as the Syrian war erupted in 2012, their relations worsened again, resulting in the severing of diplomatic ties. Still, as the calm relatively returns to large parts of the country and Russia, Iran, and Turkey see their pro-peac ...
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Foreign Forces Out: Countdown For Turkey Pullout From Iraq

Foreign Forces Out: Countdown For Turkey Pullout From Iraq

Tuesday 21 January 2020 ،
Ocalan, started its life and launched its military operations against the Turkish government. At the time, the Turkish military which had just seized the power in a coup sealed a deal with Saddam Hussein of Iraq that allowed Turkey to move 20 kilometers into the Iraqi territories to fight the terror ...
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Erdogan’s Israeli Approach: Politically Populist And Economically Pragmatic

Erdogan’s Israeli Approach: Politically Populist And Economically Pragmatic

Thursday 13 February 2020 ،
Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, an outlawed organization fighting Ankara for decades. In the same year, the New York Times in an article wrote that the strategic Turkish-Israeli partnership can change the West Asian policy. In 2010, a Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, with human right ...
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Syrian Kurdish Alliance: Grounds, Obstacles

Syrian Kurdish Alliance: Grounds, Obstacles

Thursday 7 May 2020 ،
Ocalan, is now shrouded in mystery.  After the US President Donald Trump in mid-October 2019 said he was removing his forces from northern Syria and also the anti-Kurdish Turkish military operation a couple of days later, a crisis more serious than before hit the Syrian Kurds. In late October ...
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New Wave Of Peshmerga-PKK Clashes: What Are the Drivers?

New Wave Of Peshmerga-PKK Clashes: What Are the Drivers?

Saturday 19 December 2020 ،
Ocalan, initiated its armed battle against Turkey in 1983. The party relocated its command center to northern Iraq in the late 1980s, and when in the early 1990s the Iraqi Kurdistan’s autonomy was established, the presence of the PKK in Qandil Mountains posed a source of troubles for the newly ...
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Turkey Bombs Iraqi Kurdistan Villages amid Ongoing Incursions

Turkey Bombs Iraqi Kurdistan Villages amid Ongoing Incursions

Monday 19 September 2022 ،
Ocalan who was captured in 1999 after years of intelligence work.   
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Who’s Benefiting More From Istanbul Terrorist Attack?

Who’s Benefiting More From Istanbul Terrorist Attack?

Thursday 17 November 2022 ،
Ocalan who calls for moving to confederalism and parliamentary participation.  The ringleaders of this terrorist group, who contrary to the poor infantry and low-ranking members have made huge fortunes thanks to illegal activities like drugs smuggling, human trafficking, arms trade, and illega ...
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Can Ankara and PKK Find Common Path to Peace?

Can Ankara and PKK Find Common Path to Peace?

Tuesday 5 November 2024 ،
Ocalan who has been in the Turkish prison since 1991 go to the parliament and deliver an address. This suggestion came as a day before, the PKK fighters had attacked state-owned Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and even claimed responsibility for the attack. Over the past few years, the Turkish m ...

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