Turkey says it will closely monitor a Syrian government deal with a Kurdish armed group - Turkey’s foreign minister says ...

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

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a historic moment ...

Syrian Democratic Forces Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi (left) and Syrian interim President Ahmed al Sharaa shake hands after signing an integration ...

In Syria, there's been a major development as U.S.-backed Kurdish forces who have controlled part of the country for more than a decade have agreed to be incorporated into the Syrian state.

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing ...

There were Kurdish rebellions in various countries over the following generations, and Kurds have faced state suppression of their language and culture. In Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

ISTANBUL — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ...

On Thursday, a delegation of Kurdish politicians announced Ocalan’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison. In its statement, the PKK’s ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants declared a ceasefire with ... But more recently, the group has called for more autonomy, cultural and linguistic rights rather than independence. Since Ocalan was ...