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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 ...

ANKARA, May 25 (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on ⁠Monday ⁠a court ruling that ousted the leadership ⁠of ...

While Turkey has so far refrained from staging a comprehensive military operation, the political atmosphere remains tense. Turkey opposes Kurdish ambitions over oil-rich Kirkuk and categorically ...

Turkey is on the brink of an incursion into northern Iraq, which would destabilise the only area of Iraq that receives much publicity for its political stability. This is why Washington should ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

Kurdish Militant Official Says Turkey Has Stalled Peace Talks, Blaming a Lack of Reforms IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the deaths of over ...

India is the world’s largest democracy, a regional military power, and a global diplomatic heavyweight. It may also be the world’s only country, besides Cyprus, whose territory two separate countries ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, two days after ...

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