Following months of discussions, Abdullah Öcalan, often referred to as "Apo," by his followers, will call on the members of ...

A senior commander in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Thursday said that their jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan wants to shift the Kurdish issue “out of the realm of war and into the realm of ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A top commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said that the group will not heed to a call ...

Istanbul (AFP) – Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey's leaders on rebuilding his land and the volatile issue of Kurdish fighters near the ...

Over the last two decades, developments in the Middle East have helped transform the Kurds’ struggle for greater recognition and even self-determination from a country-specific issue to a ...

Many in the region are questioning the kind of settlement Turkey seeks in Syria with the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which control significant territory in the northeast of ...

FeatureSince the fall of the Assad regime, the Syrian Democratic Forces' control over the former capital of the Islamic State organization has become increasingly contested. On December 8, 2024 ...

Many foreigners live in Kawaguchi. Nearly half are Chinese. Vietnamese, Filipinos and Kurds, mostly Turkish, round out the ethnic mix. Together they number some 40,000 – 7 percent of the population.

It rejects independence for Rojava, the Kurdish region in northeast Syria, in lieu of power-sharing between Damascus and Syria’s regions. The SDC does not seek a “zero-sum gain,” where its ...