Efforts to broker peace between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK have had a "positive impact" on Syria's Kurds who ...

The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so ...

IRBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan — Whatever happens in Iraq, we must try to limit the terrible fallout from the war. The place to start should be with our indispensable NATO ally Turkey, the front-line state of ...

JERUSALEM — Just hours after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussing the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister sent a shocking message to Washington ...

On July 11, 2025, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call to disarm and dissolve the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 30 guerrillas symbolically burned their weapons in Jasana Cave, Slêmanî, a historic symbol ...

As Turkey prepares to intensify attacks on Kurdish villages in Syria, expect a muted global reaction from the “Free Palestine” crowds. On Friday, a militant wing of the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, ...

Syrian Kurd Mohamed Zidik, 76, still buys his bread and baclavas from his Turkish neighbours in Berlin, but he knows better than to expound on his views about Ankara's offensive in his hometown. Shops ...

The simmering conflict between Turkey and Kurdish guerrillas headquartered in neighboring Iraq may be getting close to a boil. On Sunday, after 13 Turkish soldiers were killed by rebels, the ...

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - A spate of killings, a looming general election and war next door in Syria are complicating efforts to end the 30-year Kurdish insurgency in Turkey just as a breakthrough ...

Turks and Kurds may be trading accusations over responsibility for the execution-style murder of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris last week, but they agree on one point: the timing was no ...

Turks and Kurds brawled in the streets Friday as alarmed German officials threatened to deport Kurdish separatists to prevent them from importing their war to German soil. Turks and Kurds who have ...

* Gunmen kill four police in attack * Ethnic clashes in northwestern and southern Turkey By Daren Butler ISTANBUL, July 27 (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to break up clashes between Turkish and ...