Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on ... group based in neighboring Syria, the YPG, against ISIS during Syria's civil war ...

who initiated peace talks between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said on Sunday that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) is not exempt from Abdullah Ocalan’s call to ...

On February 27, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan called for the group to ... he has also said it does not relate to the SDF, despite the YPG’s ties to PKK. As Ocalan’s statement ...

On February 27, jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group ... to create a "terror-free" nation. The Kurdish YPG, which leads U.S.-backed SDF fighters against the Islamic ...

In a momentous message from his prison, Abdullah Ocalan called on the ... or SDF — which includes the YPG — welcomed Ocalan’s call for disarmament as an “opportunity to build peace and ...

On Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of ... It remains unclear if the YPG will heed Ocalan’s call to disarm. At a news conference soon after Ocalan’s announcement, SDF commander ...

Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente spoke with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish ... Ankara has repeatedly called on the YPG to disarm since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year, warning ...

Turkey Continues Operations on PKK in Iraq, Syria Despite Ocalan Call ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant ...

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve themselves.