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 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take no further steps in indirect talks with Turkey as long as its founder Abdullah ...
Verisheh Moradi, a member of the Community of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) who previously fought against the ...
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 ...
The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so would lead to a national crisis in Turkey.
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Why the Iraqi Kurds Need Air Defenses

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...
(Reuters) -After 26 years in a Turkish prison, Abdullah Ocalan is carving out a key role for himself as Ankara tries to end his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's four-decade insurgency.In an event ...
Efforts to broker peace between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK have had a "positive impact" on Syria's Kurds who ...
It's a conflict that has raged for 40 years – and cost the lives of 40,000 people – but could now be coming to an end. Since ...
A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a ...
We celebrate the 47th anniversary of the official establishment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (November 27, 1978).
A senior Kurdistan Workers' Party commander told AFP the group will take no further steps in the peace process with Turkey, urging it to advance negotiations and free PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan."All ...