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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 ...

A wildfire killed a second person in Turkey’s western Izmir province on Tuesday as blazes raged for a seventh day across ...

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

A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers ...

Faced with right-wing attacks amid a growing national profile, Japan’s Kurds could benefit from simple, pragmatic ...

After almost half a century, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has agreed to disband following an order given by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan. The founding of the party in 1978 by a ...

On 12 May, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced its dissolution and the end of its more than 40-year armed struggle against Turkey. This is a historic decision. The Kurdish issue has ...

Syrian Kurds hold up an image of Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan as they gather after Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms on Thursday, in ...

Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria. For forty years, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has sought to secure a ...