Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

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

Turkey on Thursday insisted the PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm and disband "immediately", a week after a ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a ...

A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the ...

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Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday, even as the militants' imprisoned leader called on his group to ...

The PKK was established by Ocalan in 1978, initially seeking full independence and statehood for Turkey's large Kurdish minority, but later asking for autonomy. Since then, as many as 40,000 ...

Turkey has been at war with the PKK for almost five decades. Much of that conflict has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast ...