A picture of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a shop in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli that is controlled by ...

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

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

The PKK’s unilateral disarmament marks a potential turning point in Kurdish relations with the Turkish state, but challenges ...

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ROME, Mar 5 2025 (IPS) - “The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the ...

They were marched across the Kurdish mountains from campsite to campsite and town to town, being shown off to the locals to raise morale. He now says, a little unfairly to himself, that his decision ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

Story continues below this ad Starting from the mountains in eastern and southern Turkey ... Since his incarceration, Ocalan has shifted its ideology away from secession and toward Kurdish rights ...

holed up mostly in the Qandil mountains of Iraq, and their affiliates in Syria will now be put to the test. The last attempt to secure peace included discussions on boosting Kurdish cultural and ...

Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the city closest to the PKK’s headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many locals support the group.