The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is ...

Read Gönül’s book Erdoğan's War ... a flag bearing a picture of the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, as people gather in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli ...

If President Donald Trump truly wants peace in the Middle East, he should support the Turkey-PKK peace process.

Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the PKK Abdullah Öcalan in Diyarbakir, 27 February, 2025 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) TURK: (Speaking Kurdish). ARRAF: "All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK dissolve itself." That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the ...

On Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, it would mark ...

On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK ...

The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, comes against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, including the reconfiguration of power in neighboring Syria after the ...

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

Supporters react after jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, 75, called on the PKK to disarm and dissolve itself in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey. Photo / AFP Outlawed ...