As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

The attack was part of the larger genocidal Anfal campaign that Iraq carried out against Kurds.This is the 37th anniversary of the attack, which killed about 5,000 people. The larger Anfal campaign ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely monitoring an agreement between the Syrian ...

The ceasefire between the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, and Turkey doesn’t just affect that country. It could have widespread effects also on Iraq and Syria. Kurdish Leaders and Kurds in those ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

Turkey’s Kurdish militants declared an immediate ceasefire in their 40-year war against the Turkish state. The timing was significant. This ...

As the most discerning, up-to-the-minute voice in all things travel, Condé Nast Traveler is the global citizen’s bible and muse, offering both inspiration and vital intel. We understand that ...

“The PKK terrorist organization, which held its first congress in Fis Village of Lice District of Diyarbakir on November 27, 1978 and aimed to establish a Great Kurdistan within the Marxist-Leninist ...

At USM, he was known for his engaging teaching both in the classroom and on study abroad to places ranging from Mexico to Kurdistan. This competitive award is given to the best research paper written ...

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ... Ocalan) has developed a new road map as an answer to the suffering that has been ...