The pro-Kurdish DEM Party, parliament's third largest, is now demanding that democratisation steps follow. The PKK heeded the call, declaring an immediate ceasefire. The group added it wanted ...

Roya Heshmati, a vocal critic of the compulsory headscarf, was punished after a photograph was published a few months ago showing her in Tehran with her head uncovered. The Kurdish-Iranian ...

Mehmet Sincar, one of Turkey's first pro-Kurdish party lawmakers, was gunned down in the southeastern city of Batman in 1993 as he himself investigated unsolved killings. His wife has waited in ...

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters stands on their vehicles, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo ...

Her gender and Kurdish origins have made her a special ... She evidently did not approve of the headscarf requirement in Iran. Amini had recently celebrated her 22nd birthday, and graduated ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A second batch of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters withdrew ...

A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/SERTAC KAYAR/FILE PHOTO ...

Nouri Sheikho, a senior member of the local council in Aleppo's majority Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafiya and Sheikh Maksoud, told AFP that "more than 500 fighters" left the northern city.

(photo credit: REUTERS/Orhan Qereman) Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal with the central government in Damascus ...