In this series we explore the Kurdish issue - the persecution, the resistance and their attempts to form a state. We ask what does the future hold for one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the ...

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KURDS and solidarity activists rallied outside Downing Street yesterday demanding freedom for Kurdish hero Abdullah Ocalan. The demonstration — culminating a Long March for Freedom that arrived in ...

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani stated on Wednesday that Erbil will not contribute to any form of escalation ...

French Senator Remi Feraud told Rudaw on Sunday that the relationship between France and the Kurdistan Region has flourished ...

Turkey is classified as a “brown country” with both democratic and authoritarian features, but democracy, legality, and ...

The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu brought rare unity among Turkey’s opposition — energy his party hopes will help it build an anti-Erdogan coalition.

His research focuses on Kurds and Kurdistan ... A Kurdish youth holds a flag depicting Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, during Newroz celebrations in ...

The Kurds rebelled and suffered terribly ... Only after the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured in 1999 did the fighting recede. There was no formal peace accord, since the government ...

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The PKK declared a ceasefire in March following a historic call by its leader Abdullah Ocalan — who has been imprisoned since 1999 — for the group to lay down arms and to dissolve itself.