Men watch the announcement of PKK's abandonment of armed struggle on a television screen inside a traditional Turkish tea house, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Ilyas Akengin/AFP via Getty Images Turkey’s ...
After days of fighting, the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed on Sunday to bring ...
If President Donald Trump truly wants peace in the Middle East, he should support the Turkey-PKK peace process.
(CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end ...
Clashes erupted on Turkey's border with Syria Tuesday between police and protesters angered by a Syrian military offensive ...
For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country ...
QANDIL, Iraq (AP) — A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group following its jailed leader Abdullah ...
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish parliamentary committee set up to oversee a new peace initiative with Kurdish militants on Friday voted in favor of a controversial step to meet with the militant group’s ...
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Monday hailed the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkish soil as a "critical" step that completed the first phase of Ankara's peace process with the Kurdish ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alpaslan Ozerdem, George Mason University (THE CONVERSATION) Turkey’s peace process is ...