A groundbreaking high-resolution image of the Moon has been captured by Darya Kawa Mirza, a Kurdish astrophotographer, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been fighting in an insurgency in Turkey since 1984, on Saturday unilaterally declared a ceasefire and said it would heed its jailed leader Abdullah ...

ARRAF: Ocalan's goal when he founded the party was to create an independent Kurdistan. For decades, lightly armed guerrilla fighters based in the mountains spanning Turkey and Iraq battled Turkey ...

ARRAF: Ocalan's goal when he founded the party was to create an independent Kurdistan. For decades, lightly armed guerrilla fighters based in the mountains spanning Turkey and Iraq battled Turkey's ...

older. I have lineages of J1 of 19,000 years old. Results: Nasidze et al. 2005; Wells et al. 2001; Nebel et al. 2001 (2007): 12 patrilineal Y-DNA Haplogroups & subclades found in Kurds living today. C ...