Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so ...

A decades-old case has come back to haunt Turkey, as Europe’s top rights court says a man's life sentence was built on an ...

FILE - A group of armed Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) enter northern Iraq in the Heror area, northeast of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, May 14 ...

Turkish lawmakers are set to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan as part of efforts to formalize peace talks, following signs of de-escalation and coordinated parliamentary backing.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take no further steps in indirect talks with Turkey as long as its founder Abdullah ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of ...

The PKK says it will not advance the peace process with Turkey unless Abdullah Ocalan is freed. Senior commanders call for ...

(Reuters) -Turkey is preparing a law to let thousands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters and civilians return home ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey had entered a "new phase" in efforts to end Kurdish militant violence ...

Turks and Kurds may be trading accusations over responsibility for the execution-style murder of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris last week, but they agree on one point: the timing was no ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK, a senior official said Tuesday, following the militant Kurdish group’s announcement that it ...