The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group has officially laid down arms and disbanded itself.
Iranian Labour News Agency
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group has officially laid down arms and disbanded itself.
An expert on Turkey has said that Ankara has announced that it will withdraw from northern Iraq on the condition that Baghdad has the power to fight the PKK, but since this power does not exist, Ankara will deploy its troops to these areas.
Turkey summoned Sweden's ambassador to Ankara after the Swedish government permitted a far-right, anti-Muslim leader to burn a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says he is visiting Damascus later on Saturday to help Syria and Turkey restore peace and security in their volatile border region.
Turkey hit a senior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) official at a refugee camp in northern Iraq, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, in the first Turkish confirmation of an air strike on the camp which Ankara says is a haven for Kurdish militants.
An informed source at the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces told that Turkey's army had launched an operation against the PKK along its eastern borders earlier in the day, adding that the Iranian Armed Forces have not been involved in the operation.