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

Turkey’s military has continued to conduct deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to insurgent group Kurdistan ...

Turkey’s defense minister on Saturday demanded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) surrender its weapons after the group said ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...

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Erdogan's willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders signals a potential shift in Turkey's stalled peace process with the PKK ...

His appeal, under the heading “Call for Peace and Democratic Society,” came a decade after the last negotiations between Turkey and the PKK broke down, raising the prospect of an end to one of ...

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve themselves.

The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, ...

Turkey has carried out airstrikes in Sinjar, Iraq, the ancestral home of the Yezidis, every single year since 2017. The PKK came to the defense of Yezidis when the Islamic State launched their ...

The Turkish government, however, says all Kurdish groups it claims are tied to the PKK — whether in Turkey, Syria or Iraq — must disband. Erdogan warned last week that Turkey would “always ...

The PKK’s decision to try and hold ground in southeast Turkey, in 2015, may retrospectively be seen as a major error, resulting in the decimation of wide swathes of its heartland. It remains to ...