Making peace with the PKK could also lead to a major advance in Erdogan’s mission to stabilise Syria under a friendly new government, as the biggest threat to those new rulers is the US-backed Syrian ...
Now, PKK’s founder, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on Kurdish fighters to lay down their arms. However, it remains unclear how ...
The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency since 1984 ...
The dynamics surrounding Türkiye have accelerated at an extraordinary pace, and when examined closely, recent developments ...
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ISTANBUL: A delegation of Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party went on Thursday to visit jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan in his island prison, where he was expected to give them a statement that ...
Turkish president’s comments come as his party urged PKK affiliates in Iraq and Syria to also dissolve and disarm.
The leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) on Friday said he is concerned about the state of governance in the Kurdistan ...
It was something that was in the making for some months now. First came the appeal by Nationalist Movement Party leader ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In their first response to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to lay down arms, an umbrella group of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Friday said the jailed leader’s message has ...
Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after ...
A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...
The gambit could give the Turkish president a chance to extend his power, while also calming a conflict that threatens to ...