The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. For decades, the Turkish army has operated ...

A man displays a flag bearing the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan is seen during the celebrations of the Kurdish New Year 'Newroz' in Frankfurt am Main. The imprisoned leader of the ...

A decades-old case has come back to haunt Turkey, as Europe’s top rights court says a man's life sentence was built on an ...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President Masoud Barzani’s office on Tuesday condemned Turkey’s prominent far-right politician ...

DEM Party says Erdogan's alliance offers no clear steps in talks DEM urges anti-terror laws reforms, better conditions for PKK leader Ocalan Erdogan insists PKK must ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey’s ...

QANDIL, Iraq — A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in ...

The Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire Saturday, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm.The statement from the ...

For decades, the Turkish army has operated in northern Iraq and has established bases and posts in the mountainous Kurdish region. This autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq has its own ...