ANKARA: The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party, Abdullah Ocalan, has been allowed to meet his lawyers ...

The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party, Abdullah Ocalan, has been allowed to meet his lawyers for the first time ...

In an interim resolution, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers called on Turkey to implement the ECtHR's rulings ...

A man displays a flag with the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Oecalan at the Kurdish Newroz celebration in Frankfurt. Oecalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Friday called for the ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the militant group involved in a four-decade-long insurgency against Turkey, has announced it will disband and end its armed operations. The decision, declared in a ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group following its jailed leader Abdullah ...

Jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has written to Arab tribal leaders in northern Syria calling for ...

In a quiet but historic turn, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party announced its official dissolution during its 12th Congress in May 2025. After more than four decades of armed conflict with the Turkish ...

After decades of insurgency, the PKK plans to disarm and disband. Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria. For forty years, ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party will meet President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to push a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, while Turkish media ...

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 ...