Turkey’s defense ministry on Thursday called on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its affiliates to immediately disband ...

ANKARA - Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

We are now in the second phase of the transformation triggered by Hamas’s October 7 attacks. In the first phase, Gaza and ...

Despite having a positive opinion about Öcalan's call, the respondents remain skeptical about whether the PKK will disarm.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan called for his group to disarm and end its conflict with Turkey. The ...

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

Öcalan (center) with the DEM Party delegation at İmralı Island Prison, where he has been held since 1999. A video of Öcalan ...

There’s a reason to be sceptical about Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace. Efforts to end the fighting in 1993, 1995-1996, and ...

Among the uncertainties facing Syria is the future of U.S. involvement in the country. Since 2014, Washington has backed a de ...

Over the weekend, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced it would uphold a ceasefire requested by their leader, who remains imprisoned in Turkey. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren takes look back ...

Ankara wants a success story without Western oversight.