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Turkey fears a deepening ethnic fracture in Syria could redraw the regional map — and embolden its own Kurdish population.
The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that ...
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.
A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...
Turkey has warned Kurdish militants it considers terrorists in northeast Syria not to exploit the recent flareup in Suweida, ...
However, Kurds in Turkey are far from a singular force. The majority identify as conservative Islamists and have regularly sided with the AK Party against the secular, leftist PKK.
Madam, - Having read the letter headed "Bush, Turkey and the Kurds" (July 6th), which gives a distorted account of affairs, I… ...
Exactly a year ago Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he was working on a new plan to end the war with insurgents from the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, which has cost ...
Turkey's top diplomat has announced that his country is helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to "give support" to fellow Kurds defending the border town of Kobani from Islamic State ...
Turkey stops Kurds from Syria fight. Video, 00:02:01 Turkey stops Kurds from Syria fight. Subsection. Middle East. Published. 29 September 2014. 2:01. Editor's recommendations.
We know that Turkey’s pressure on the Kurds to leave Rojava could be a lot worse because this has already happened in Afrin, the isolated Kurdish enclave north of Aleppo that Turkey invaded and ...