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

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] ...

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is urgently calling for Turkey's parliamentary Commission to directly ...

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

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is scheduled to visit jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ...

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 ...

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

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Monday announced its dissolution, saying it was ending its armed struggle against the Turkish state and drawing a line under its bloody four-decade insurgency.

Founded by Ocalan in 1978, the PKK has waged a war against the Turkish state for decades. The group initially fought for an independent state in the Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast.

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.