Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak Timur reported from Istanbul. The imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has waged a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state called ...

July 2005 – (TURKEY) Six people die from a bomb planted on a train by a Kurdish guerrilla. Turkish officials blame the PKK. 2005 – (IRAQ) The 2005 Iraqi constitution upholds Kurdish autonomy ...

By Safak Timur and Carlotta Gall The Kurdish guerrilla group that has been fighting a long-running insurgency against Turkey declared a cease-fire on Saturday, days after a call from its jailed ...

The PKK emerged in 1984 targeting Turkish military installations with the goal – later abandoned – of creating an independent Kurdish state. The ensuing guerilla conflict has resulted in an estimated ...

More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its armed campaign in 1984 for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeastern Turkey. It has since moved away from its separatist goals ...

The complex history of the Kurdish people, from nomadic tribes to modern-day struggles for autonomy and recognition.

They have now reached another turning point. Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has called on his ...

Founded in 1978 as a Stalinist guerrilla organization that rejected the unified struggle of Turkish and Kurdish workers against the ruling class, the PKK, which gained strength in an environment ...