In Turkey's Kurdish heartland, distrust erodes peace process hopes
Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...
Victims of Turkey's Kurdish militant conflict long for peace
Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...
Turkey arrests Swedish journalist over alleged terrorist connections to a pro-Kurdish group
Turkish authorities have arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of ...
Kurds in Iraq and Syria celebrate the Newroz festival of spring at a time of new political horizons
AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...
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Turkish politicians disrespect Kurdistan flag, Kurdish MPs respond
The peaceful nature of this year’s Newroz celebrations is believed to be linked to ongoing talks between the state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has indicated a willingness to ...
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The complex struggle for ‘Kurdistan’
among them the Partiya Karkari Kurdistan or the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) under Abdullah Ochalan, which would define the Kurdish struggle for decades. The PKK adopted a Marxist-Leninist ...
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Kurds ponder future in Turkey, Syria and Iraq with guarded optimism
Ocalan’s unprecedented statement on February 27 urging the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm and disband raised hopes among Turkey’s Kurdish citizens that Turkish President Recep ...
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PKK demands legal guarantees to lay down arms
Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Tuesday said the group cannot lay down arms or dissolve unless political and legal reforms ...
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Is This the End of Turkey’s 40-Year Conflict With the Kurds?
That might be set to change. The leading militant group in northern and eastern Syria near the Turkish border, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, better known as the PKK, declared a ceasefire following a ...
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VOA Kurdish: DEM Party speaks of roadmap to peace
The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) announced a new roadmap to peace following the call of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan for his group to disarm.
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Cease-fire halts decades-old conflict between Turkey, Kurds
March 1 (UPI) --The militia wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party announced a cease-fire with immediate effect Saturday to halt decades of conflict between Turkey and the Kurds. The cease-fire ...
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Turkiye: Kurdistan Workers Party declares ceasefire post order from incarcerated leader
Ankara [Turkiye], March (ANI): The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday (local time) declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on ...