Turkey is requesting Finland and Sweden send 130 Kurdish "terrorists" in exchange for permission to join NATO
BEHIND THE LINES: Is change, for better or for worse, likely in the year ahead? Here are three Middle East arenas to watch carefully in the months ahead.
Turkey has recently changed its stance towards the Assad regime amid efforts to combat Kurdish groups in the eastern Euphrates.
Kurds were killed in the attack last week, prompting some Kurds and supporters to protest. This is where Ankara stepped in. It wanted to paint the protesters as “PKK supporters.”
Artı Gerçek first reported last week on the slated deportations of the couple, Hossein Manbari and Shugar Mohammadi.
The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after shooting dead two men and a woman at a Kurdish cultural center and nearby Kurdish cafe in the 10th district of Paris.
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Ankara was in talks with Moscow, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, about the operation.
Following a shooting at a Kurdish cafe and cultural center nearby in Paris, the city's Kurdish community has banded together in protest.
The attack raises questions about how the man obtained a gun and why he was not stopped by the security services.
Three dead after a gunman opened fire at a Kurdish community center in central Paris. Police are investigating a possible racist motive for the attack.