Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

But they must not allow Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to use peace as a smokescreen for repression. Having ruled ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the first step toward the group’s promised disarmament. The move on ...

The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...

Umit Ozdag, head of the opposition Victory Party, also sought to stir nationalist passions, slamming the commission as a bid ...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) has formally notified political parties of the formation of a parliamentary ...

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Turkey. Things are looking up for Ankara as its quest for Eurofighters is nearing a successful ...

The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and ...

Turkish officials say Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s help to boost its defense capabilities.

Turkey, which has long expressed readiness to assist Damascus, was working towards providing training and technical support ...