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

Speaking at a peace forum in Istanbul on Saturday, a senior member of the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The PKK has 'waged an insurgency' against Turkey since 1984 and an estimated 40,000 people have ...

SDF leader Mazloum Abdi says the PKK's imprisoned leader could resolve some of the tensions between Ankara and Syria's Kurds ...

Turkey demanded an explanation from Iraqi Kurdish officials after former leader Masoud Barzani arrived in a mainly Kurdish ...

(Adds quotes) ANKARA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — A momentous ceasefire declaration on Saturday stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the brunt of the 40-year conflict between ...

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 ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete step ...

A Turkish parliamentary delegation has held talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or ...

For many years, the Kurdish tragedy was poignantly illustrated by the gifts and sweets stuffed through gaps in a barbed-wire fence, the babies held high and the news shared across the closed ...