The Turkish president also deemed essential to dismantle the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces operating in northern Syria, which Ankara links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, outlawed in Turkey ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem unwilling to as long as Turkish strikes continue.

Turkey detained Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, on charges of corruption and ...

Political opposition leader and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was in Turkish police custody Wednesday after he was arrested ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door talks on Monday meant to advance a peace process after Kurdish militants ...

A renewed peace effort between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has reignited hopes for a resolution to the four-decade-long ...

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

Reliant on government wages, the KRG’s 1.2 million civil servants feel pressured to support the region’s dominant parties, the Kurdistan Democratic party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Syria’s government has struck an agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that control the northeast of the country to integrate the group into the national army in the push for a ...

Syria says that it has reached an agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to ... and tied to the Kurdish nationalist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – repeatedly clashed with ...

Out of jail, he became active in leftwing groups and then founded the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which initially ... from Marxist Leninism into ‘democratic confederalism’, which he ...