Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), met with family members on the occasion of ...

The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday urged the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband, one month after ...

Turkish authorities have arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of ...

The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem unwilling to as long as Turkish strikes continue.

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on Monday that their jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan should be involved in all ...

ERBIL — Cemil Bayık, a senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has dismissed calls for the group’s dissolution without the direct involvement of its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Abdullah Öcalan. Speaking on Stêrk TV on Mar 13, Bayık, a co-chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council, said the conditions for holding a PKK congress, as called for by Öcalan, ...

The consequences of the call by the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, for the group to disband are still reverberating – not just in Turkiye but also in the wider ...