Supporters of pro-Kurdish DEM Party wave flags with portraits of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan at a rally for Newroz in Istanbul, Turkiye, March 17, 2024 [Umit Bektas/Reuters] In 1998 ...

March 21, 2013 Ocalan calls on the PKK to lay down arms in a letter read during celebrations of the Kurdish spring festival of Newroz, marking the beginning of the peace initiative dubbed the ...

The Japan Kurdish Cultural Association organized the ... The association also said that fires used at past Newroz festivals had violated park rules. However, after further discussion, the ...

Junad, Group Chairman, of Newroz Telecom explains how a company that is internationally recognised as one of the best telecommunication operators in the Middle East is connecting the Kurdistan ...

Abdullah Ocalan founded the PKK in the late 1970s and it began its armed insurgency in 1984 — Delil SOULEIMAN The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Monday announced its dissolution, saying it was ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate in neighboring countries. By Erika Solomon and Ben Hubbard A Kurdish ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The third edition of the Middle East Tourism Expo (METEX 2025) was held in the capital of the Kurdistan Region, Erbil, drawing around 180 companies from 18 countries ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Traffic fatalities in the Kurdistan Region have dropped by 78 percent over the past two years, with the number of deaths falling from 445 in 2022 to 98 in 2024 ...

It would also give President Tayyip Erdogan a historic opportunity to develop mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey, where violence has killed thousands and hamstrung the regional economy in 40 years of ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said Monday that it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, raising the prospect of an end to the decades-long insurgency the ...