Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

Some even suggest that the Turkish President will likely use Ocalan’s call as a way to persuade Kurdish voters to support a ...

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates and the PKK headquarters in Iraq remain ambivalent. What are their options?

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition ...

Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...

The deal would allow Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish ...

A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025 (photo credit: REUTERS/SERTAC KAYAR/FILE PHOTO) The ...

Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

Turkey’s military has continued to conduct deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to insurgent group Kurdistan ...