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 ...

Sadet, whose daughter Rojbin died fighting for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), says she hopes the group's call to disarm ...

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

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent a message to Syria’s Kurds, saying that Türkiye is the guarantee for their security, ...

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 ...