Turkey views the YPG as closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). This group has conducted a decades-long insurgency in Turkey and is designated as a terrorist organization by the US.

The toppling of Ankara’s archenemy Bashar al-Assad in Syria may have increased Turkey’s regional influence but it ... which Ankara considers to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests – and vying for power ...

During one of the crises between the two countries in 1989, Turkey grew frustrated with Hafez al-Assad’s support for Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The group is closely aligned to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party , which has fought the Turkish state since 1984. By 2015, the YPG had carved out a large chunk of territory in northeast Syria along ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed in just 13 days of rebel offensive after 24 years of rule, leaving a political vacuum in its capital Damascus.

Syrian rebels—long thought to have lost their fight against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime—shocked the world on December 1 after overrunning Syria’s second city, Aleppo, amid a ...

Members of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stand along a street, after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Hasakah, Syria, Dec. 11, 2024. IS remnants and ...

But after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, ... The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate in neighboring countries.

The British-born wife of Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad has reportedly filed for ... the main component of the SDF, as being connected to the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

For the first time in 50 years, Syrians are free of the rule of the Assad family. After a string of stunning advances, opposition forces took control of Damascus on Sunday, as Bashar al-Assad boarded ...