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 ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...

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.

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 ...

Efforts to broker peace between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK have had a "positive impact" on Syria's Kurds who ...

A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a ...

(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 ...

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 ...

In October, the PKK said it had begun withdrawing its fighters from Turkish soil as it pursues a peace intiative with Turkey — Shwan MOHAMMED The Kurdish militant PKK said Monday its forces had ...

We celebrate the 47th anniversary of the official establishment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (November 27, 1978).