For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

The ceasefire between the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, and Turkey doesn’t just affect that country. It could have widespread effects also on Iraq and Syria. Kurdish Leaders and Kurds in those ...

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In 2023, Mr. Netanyahu outlined elements of his vision in an address to the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister held up a map that erased Palestine and showed the Golan Heights, ...

Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...

His call will have a serious impact on the political map of the Middle East and will ... violence is reportedly in the cards, and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has offered asylum to ...

Disarmament may help reduce domestic tensions, especially in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeastern regions, which for ...

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The announcement came just two days after the leader of the militant PKK group, Abdullah Ocalan, whom Turkey has held in ...

Disarmament may help reduce domestic tensions, especially in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeastern regions, which for decades have witnessed violent confrontations between the army and PKK militants.

ANKARA, Turkey — A senior Turkish official on Friday called for the dissolution of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party’s affiliates in Iraq and Syria, a day after the PKK’s imprisoned leader urged his ...