Following months of discussions, Abdullah Öcalan, often referred to as "Apo," by his followers, will call on the members of ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Journalists and rights groups condemn 'free speech absolutist' for agreeing to block scores of accounts including news ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

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After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. However, with President Erdogan's democratic backsliding and continued crackdown ...

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM, formerly HDP, Turkey's is Turkey’s third-largest political party, and only DEM has the requisite number of seats in parliament (given the right ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Turkey is attempting to form a new coalition to combat ISIS remnants and replace the Pentagon-backed Kurdish forces in Syria.

Turkish President Erdogan and his administration are negotiating with Syria’s interim president to solidify its influence and ...

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited is a small company in the Kurdistan part of Iraq. A pipeline through Turkey would help get ...