Ocalan’s call comes as value of armed fight diminishes, and Kurdish political participation grew – will this continue?
Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an ...
Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...
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 ...
Some even suggest that the Turkish President will likely use Ocalan’s call as a way to persuade Kurdish voters to support a ...
Turkey’s military has continued to conduct deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to insurgent group Kurdistan ...
Ocalan's call for an end of the PKK coincides with an unprecedented situation in Damascus that arose after the fall of Syria's longtime dictator Bashar Assad in December.
If Ocalan's declaration does not by itself signal the conclusion of the PKK-Ankara war, what is it nevertheless likely to ...
Turkey on Thursday insisted the PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm and disband “immediately”, a week after a ...
Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...