The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...

The developments in the Middle East over the past year have been rapid and surprising. One of these surprises is the ...

Newroz Market sells made-to-order specialties -- including shawarma -- along with shelved delicacies shipped from across the ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A women’s rights organization on Monday called for the complete abolition of polygamy in the Kurdistan Region, citing it as the root cause of a horrific crime committed last ...

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

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 ...

People in the Kurdish province of Hakkari (Colemerg) in southeast Turkey demonstrated Kurdish culture and the region’s scenic ...

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

Iraq’s semi-autonomous north is grappling with a severe economic crisis, with many residents forced into massive personal debt.

Over the years, the PKK has transformed into a militant arm of a regional ethnic struggle to carry on the Kurdish culture, as the death toll mounted. About a decade ago, Ocalan made a similar call ...