For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Turkey’s military has continued to conduct deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to insurgent group Kurdistan ...

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If his followers heed that call, it would mark a turning point for Turkey and have far-reaching implications for the Middle East. The conflict between the PKK and Turkey has had devastating ...

Erdogan's willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders signals a potential shift in Turkey's stalled peace process with the PKK ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...

His appeal, under the heading “Call for Peace and Democratic Society,” came a decade after the last negotiations between Turkey and the PKK broke down, raising the prospect of an end to one of ...

On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were wary of ...

The conflict between the PKK and Turkey has had devastating effects on Turkey and neighbors. Ocalan’s peace call on Thursday marked a major turning point and could have far-reaching implications ...

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 ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A senior Turkish official on Friday called for the dissolution of affiliates in Iraq and Syria of the ...

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 ...