Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a ...
The PKK has launched a terror campaign against Turkey for four decades, targeting both civilians and security forces. Here's ...
Damascus has since announced a four-day ceasefire with Kurdish forces but protests across Turkey have continued. The earlier violence broke out in the border town of Nusaybin, just across from the ...
IRBIL, Iraq — A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively “frozen” by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday. He and ...
"We have destroyed and will continue destroying the separatist [PKK] terrorist organisation's strongholds in Qandil," ...
A key ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that all “affiliated groups” of the Kurdish militant group PKK must disarm as well, as part of a historic ceasefire deal with Ankara.
By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The one-year anniversary of the latest self-dissolution declaration by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...
Turkey's advances across the increasingly depopulated border of Iraqi Kurdistan attract little global attention compared to its incursions into Syria or the battle against Islamic State, but the ...
Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they ...