ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) described its Sunday meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ ...

In the written statement, the İmralı Delegation described Ocalan as being in good health and high spirits, emphasizing that ...

Five Turkish soldiers have died after exposure to methane gas on Sunday while searching a cave in northern Iraq for the remains of a fellow soldier killed by Kurdish militants in 2022, the Turkish ...

Turkey is battling deadly wildfires across multiple provinces, with two fatalities confirmed and over 200 homes destroyed.

By bnm Baghdad bureau The Kurdistan Workers' Party announced on July 3 that its fighters in northern Iraq will begin ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, involved in a prolonged insurgency in Turkey, is starting to disarm as part of a peace ...

The end of the PKK’s decades of armed struggle was justified by Ocalan on the grounds that the future for Kurdish politics was peaceful, but “requires the recognition of democratic politics ...

The Kurdish question will not vanish with the dissolution of the PKK or with Öcalan’s calls to renounce demands for Kurdish status; it will merely be deferred and reshaped—until a genuine ...

The idea of ‘Kurdish separatism’ and PKK violence have also made Turkish society more accepting of the state’s undemocratic measures. The PKK’s dissolution could in the medium to longer term lead to a ...