Supporters of pro-Kurdish DEM Party wave flags with portraits of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan at a rally for Newroz in Istanbul, Turkiye, March 17, 2024 [Umit Bektas/Reuters] ...

ANKARA — Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party said Tuesday it will hold a new meeting with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, a ...

The mothers of some fighters in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) called on Wednesday for an amnesty for their ...

Families whose children joined the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party), hold their images as they sit in front of the headquarters of the Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party after the PKK announced its ...

Police in Ankara said in a statement that a man detained for setting it alight suffered from psychological problems and also ...

Never very large, with at most 6,000 active members, PKK was active mainly in Turkey and Iraq. PKK violence led to the destruction of peaceful Kurdish political parties in Turkey. The Turkish response ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) — The Kurdistan Workers' Party on Monday announced its dissolution and the end of its armed struggle, drawing a line under its deadly four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

Support from the PKK and Turkiye’s politicians signals a change after decades of conflict, but pitfalls remain.

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized identifying as a Kurd, and depopulated thousands of Kurdish villages, Erdogan ...

PKK fighters were to begin laying down their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.