Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional ...

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

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of ...

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...

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 ...

Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The PKK is classified as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the EU ... Regionally, the move could redraw the map of alliances, especially if it succeeds in achieving a Turkish-Kurdish ...

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

The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies ... Ocalan) has developed a new road map as an answer to the suffering that has been going on in this country ...