Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

Devlet Bahceli, leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party and ally of President Erdogan, has called for the PKK to disband by May 4. This is in response to a call from imprisoned leader Abdullah ...

Long-serving, autocratic-leaning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his tenure beyond ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the country’s future. The recent agreement between Damascus and the Kurdish-led ...

Turkish authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogans key political rival, on charges of ...

Commenting on the possibility of easing the detention conditions for PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, Tunc clarified that "any individ ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party criticized President Erdogan's ruling alliance for not offering specific steps during talks aimed at advancing peace. Despite Kurdish militants' pledge to disarm, the ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door talks on Monday meant to advance a peace process after Kurdish militants ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...