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 ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed ringleader of the PKK terrorist group, issued another message on Wednesday. His message, released by the pro-PKK ...

On Tuesday, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the fascist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), part of the “People’s Alliance” led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, declared, “When the isolation of the ...

The Erbil-based Rudaw Media Network in Iraq recently reported that, “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that his country is engaged in talks with its neighbors on disarmament of ...

After four decades of fighting, almost 40,000 casualties, and billions of dollars spent, Turkey has failed to contain Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Despite many cross-border operations, the group ...

The long historical journey of the Kurdish freedom movement is a multi-layered series of breaks that have transformed not only the political geography of the Middle East but also the fundamental ...

Kurdish youths holds a poster of jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan during Newroz celebrations on March 21, 2025 in Diyarbakir, Turkey. — Sedat Suna/Getty Images The outlawed Kurdistan ...

When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey, Leila hoped she might soon be reunited with her son.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government accused Kurdish authorities on Sunday of bringing fighters from Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and ...

The PKK, numbering 4,000 in Iraq and 2,000 in Turkey, is a vicious bunch. Since 1984, when it began pushing for an independent homeland in southeastern Turkey, over 30,000 have been killed in ...

The United States continues to maintain a tight counter-terror partnership with the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led force that fights the Islamic State in ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his rebel militant group lay down its arms and disband in a momentous announcement that could bring an end to a bloody decades-long conflict with ...