Thousands of people celebrated the Kurdish Newroz spring festival on Thursday in Dohuk in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region ...

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an ...

The United States encouraged its Syrian Kurdish allies to reach Monday's landmark deal with the Islamist-led government in Damascus, six sources said, an agreement that could stave off further ...

But he has remained the leader of the PKK throughout and has kept his strong personality cult among the Kurdish freedom movement. He was the force behind the PKK’s shift away from its separatist ...

Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK has declared a ceasefire with Turkey after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the movement to lay down its arms and dissolve. In Saturday's statement ...

Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a TV screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and ...

(Reuters) – The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire yesterday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...

ISTANBUL - Outlawed Kurdish militants on March 1 declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four ...

Campaign of pressure on Kurds On Thursday, a delegation of Kurdish politicians announced Ocalan’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison.