For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...
Turkey’s defense minister on Saturday demanded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) surrender its weapons after the group said ...
Turkey’s military has continued to conduct deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to insurgent group Kurdistan ...
The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, ...
Erdogan's willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders signals a potential shift in Turkey's stalled peace process with the PKK ...
Turkey has carried out airstrikes in Sinjar, Iraq, the ancestral home of the Yezidis, every single year since 2017. The PKK came to the defense of Yezidis when the Islamic State launched their ...
Ocalan’s call and the PKK’s declaration were part of an effort to end the conflict that was initiated in October by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ally, Devlet Bahceli, who is the leader of Turkey’s ...
The PKK’s decision to try and hold ground in southeast Turkey, in 2015, may retrospectively be seen as a major error, resulting in the decimation of wide swathes of its heartland. It remains to ...
The ceasefire between the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, and Turkey doesn’t just affect that country. It could have widespread effects also on Iraq and Syria. Kurdish Leaders and Kurds in those ...
Turkish forces killed 24 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week, the defence ministry said on Thursday, continuing attacks in the region after a disarmament call from the PKK ...
The Turkish government, however, says all Kurdish groups it claims are tied to the PKK — whether in Turkey, Syria or Iraq — must disband. Erdogan warned last week that Turkey would “always ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday, even as the militants' imprisoned leader called on ...