Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing ...

The PKK’s disarmament will help Erdoğan on the foreign policy front as well. He wants to bolster trade, expand energy and defence co-operation, and improve connectivity with Iraq. The PKK’s presence ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Gönül Tol and Djene Bajalan on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK ... how this fits into Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans, whether ...

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also ...

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms ...

The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is ...

Demirtaş was transferred to Istanbul on Friday to be by the side of his wife, Başak Demirtaş, who was scheduled for surgery.

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish guerrilla, on ...

The PKK leader’s calls for the group to disarm and dissolve is a step towards ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Öcalan (center) with the DEM Party delegation at İmralı Island Prison, where he has been held since 1999. A video of Öcalan delivering his message is expected to be released later this month during ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...