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

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against Turkish authorities for more than four decades have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant ...

He said armed struggle should be replaced with peaceful political action to try to win more rights for Kurds — Turkey’s largest ethnic minority. The P.K.K. leadership responded to the call by ...

As the years passed and the death toll mounted, the PKK proved to become a militant arm of a regional ethnic struggle to carry on the Kurdish culture. Kurds are the biggest minority in Turkey ...

Ocalan's call for disarmament, if acted on by the PKK, is likely to have far-reaching implications for the entire Middle East, including for millions of ethnic Kurds living in Syria, Iraq and Iran.

regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds.” The deal will also recognize as an integral part of the state Syria’s Kurdish community, tens of thousands of whom were previously denied ...

Syria is a Sunni-Muslim majority country, but has many religious and ethnic minorities including Alawites, Druse, Christians and Kurds. Many in Syria, however, remain skeptical of the country’s ...

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against Turkish authorities for more than four decades have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...