Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in an historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's ...

Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in a historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's ...

Israel is worried by the scale of Turkey’s involvement in Syria, including its plans to set up military bases and supply the ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

The PKK conflict has killed more than 40,000 people since it began in 1984, leaving tens of thousands wounded, including ...

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their Newroz New Year Friday with peace prospects still remote. The efforts to ...

If Erdoğan and his government simply instrumentalize the promise of peace as a regional power grab, the challenges in US-Turkey relations will grow.

The mood among the Kurds has changed after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan urged the PKK to end its struggle against ...

The group began fighting the Turkish state in the early 1980s, originally seeking independence for the Kurds, who are believed to make up about 15 percent or more of Turkey’s population.

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...