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.

Kurdish leaders affiliated with the PKK are more cautious about dissolving the party. They believe it is unwise to abandon 45 ...

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 ...

The Kurdification of Assyria, which refers to the surge of Kurdish supremacy at the expense of Assyrian identity, culture, ...

The SDF is a U.S.-backed Kurdish military alliance in northeastern Syria that has a presence in most of the territory in that part of the country. Turkey designates the SDF and its military arm, the ...

Following Assad’s fall, Israel seized territory in southern Syria ... Since 2016, Turkey has launched operations in northern Syria to push back Syrian Kurdish militias linked to the banned Kurdistan ...

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

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Syria’s interim president and former commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces signed a landmark accord last week that could profoundly alter the trajectory of a country already facing ...

In the north east of the country, in a territory called Rojava, a feminist socialist revolution has been ongoing for since 2012. Then a few weeks ago, Abdullah Öcalan, a Kurdish leader who has been ...