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

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

The dissolution was therefore ratified at an extraordinary congress on May 12, held in two different locations (one can never be too careful...). This is the culmination of a 25-year quest for a ...

Komala leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek that "the regime might collapse under pressure" if the U.S. lends its support.

The PKK declares an end to armed struggle after 40 years, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call. A historic shift for Turkey, the ...

The remarks by Duran Kalkan, a member of the PKK Executive Committee, came days after Turkey’s FM Hakan Fidan publicly called ...

At least four waves of arrests have decimated the leadership of the Istanbul municipality. In addition to the mayor and opposition leader, more than 200 people are in jail. The CHP accuses the governm ...

One of the oldest conflicts in West Asia -- the so-called 'Kurdish question' -- is currently inching closer to a solution.

A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said its members should not be forced into exile as a result of any future ...

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 ...

ISTANBUL - 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 ...