It took weeks of letter-writing and persuasion by Sky News's Syrian team to obtain permission to film inside. "The attacks by ISIS have doubled," since Assad's fall, a senior Kurdish soldier from ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

The pro-Kurdish DEM Party, parliament's third largest, is now demanding that democratisation steps follow. The PKK heeded the call, declaring an immediate ceasefire. The group added it wanted ...

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

The PKK emerged in 1984 targeting Turkish military installations with the goal – later abandoned – of creating an independent Kurdish state. The ensuing guerilla conflict has resulted in an estimated ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip ... conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which last month declared a ceasefire in response to jailed ...

Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), at a press conference following Ocalan’s statement, emphasized that the call was to the PKK’s forces and not ...

1978 – (TURKEY) Abdullah Öcalan forms the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group. Late 1970s – (IRAQ) The Baath Party, under Hussein’s leadership, uproots Kurds from ...