Democratic Union Party
Kurdish political party
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| November 2022 | A bombing occurred in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district, killing 6 and wounding 81 people, with Turkish officials suspecting the PYD's involvement. |
| June 28 2022 | PYD was included in the trilateral memorandum signed by Turkey, Finland, and Sweden during the NATO summit in Madrid, without being explicitly defined as a terrorist organization. |
| 2019 | The Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) formed an alliance with the Syrian Arab Army, primarily in response to their shared opposition to Turkey. |
| November 6 2018 | U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer announced $12 million in bounties on three PKK leaders (Murat Karayilan, Cemil Bayik, and Duran Kalkan), a move that appeased Turkey while creating potential policy tensions with U.S. allies YPJ-YPG. |
| January 20 2018 | Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch against the PYD-governed Afrin Canton in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. |
| August 2016 | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that 'extermination of the PYD' is a policy aim of the Turkish government. |
| 2014 | Kurdish-Turkish peace process broke down following the Siege of Kobanî and subsequent protests, leading to a resumption of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict with a Syrian dimension. |
| November 2013 | The PYD announced an interim government divided into three non-contiguous autonomous areas or cantons: Afrin, Jazira, and Kobani, establishing a self-governing system in war-torn Syria. |
| July 2013 | PYD leader Salih Muslim held talks with Turkish officials regarding the movement's autonomy within Syria, with Turkey demanding non-violent approaches, border security preservation, and opposition to the Syrian government. |
| 2012 | The PYD launched the Social Economy Plan (later renamed the People's Economy Plan), which aimed to create an economic system based on Abdullah Öcalan's principles of democratic confederalism. |
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