Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

“Just to make it clear, this is only for the PKK, nothing related to us in Syria,” Kobane said. Differences over Syria were a key obstacle in close to a year of secret peace talks that led to Ocalan’s ...

"She loved school, she wanted to become a psychiatrist and help her people," she added, indicating the "TC" insignia meaning "republic of Turkey" on her school uniform. Jailed PKK founder Abdullah ...

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

in response to a call by its imprisoned leader to lay down arms and work toward ending a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, agrees with the conten ...

While Turkey's government is struggling to deal with mass protests at home (after Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was imprisoned), in foreign ...

Turkey has been at war with the PKK for almost five decades. Much of that conflict has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared ... Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. While the government is yet to respond in detail to the PKK’s ...

The message, relayed by senior pro-Kurdish party officials, was part of a new peace initiative to end a war that has claimed ... goal of a terror-free Turkey.” The PKK’s leadership, which ...

against ISIS during Syria's civil war, caused serious friction with Ankara. Turkey has long argued that the YPG is an extension of the PKK, and that American support for the Kurdish forces was ...