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What to Know About the Turkey-P.K.K. Conflict

The fighting has taken more than 40,000 lives over the past four decades. The group’s leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms.

The New York Times - 7h

Erdoğan crackdown spans Turkey’s mayors and an astrologer

President’s most prominent rival, journalists and a talent agent among scores swept up in prosecutions

Financial Times - 3d

Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader calls for militants to disarm

Abdullah Öcalan urges PKK to lay down weapons after he meets opposition politicians in prison

Financial Times - 7h

Two business leaders in Turkey are questioned after they criticize the government

Prosecutors have questioned two Turkish business leaders after they delivered a scathing criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government

ABC News - Feb. 19

Iraq says oil exports from Kurdish region by way of Turkey set to resume

Iraq’s oil ministry has announced the resumption of oil exports from northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region

ABC News - 5d

'We are still at war': Syria's Kurds battle Turkey months after Assad's fall

As Syria's interim leader plans its future, Kurds in the north-east are battling Turkish-backed forces.

BBC News - 1d

Hormel’s stock boosted by revenue beat, though challenges lie ahead with turkeys and nuts

The company said it continues to “recover from the snack nuts supply disruption” that impacted Planters nuts.

MarketWatch - 11h

Putin says US-Russia contacts give ‘hope’ amid talks in Turkey on restoring ties – as it happened

Russian president claims to FSB security service that ‘some western elites will try to undermine our dialogue’. Speaking at a press conference in Vienna, the Austrian People’s Party’s leader ...

The Guardian - 7h

Jailed Kurdish leader calls for PKK to disarm – in shift that could shake up Turkey and Middle East

Abdullah Öcalan’s message, which follows four decades of guerrilla warfare, will have far-reaching implications . The ageing leader of a Kurdish militant group imprisoned on a remote Turkish island ...