Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

At the time, Kurds were denied the right to speak their ... DEM Party wave flags with portraits of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan at a rally for Newroz in Istanbul, Turkiye, March 17, 2024 ...

Turkey and Syrian Kurdish officials are engaged in secret negotiations to normalize ties and end decades of conflict.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. After a decades-long insurgency ...

After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, is ending its war against the Turkish state.

The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on Friday, about two months after its imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan ... that many Kurds in Turkiye felt.

Ocalan's capture in ... of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many ...