Turkey's Kurds say PKK militants heeding jailed leader's peace call is the right move
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Kurdistan Workers Party, in a major development, declares a ceasefire following a call from its imprisoned founder, Abdullah ...
Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...
or PKK, is a Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. It is classified as a terrorist organisation in Turkey - ...
It mentioned Turkey’s repression of the rights of Kurds — roughly a fifth of Turkey’s population — as the backdrop to the PKK’s founding, but called for action only on the part of the ...
Turkey has been at war with the PKK for almost five decades. Much of that conflict has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast ...
Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...
The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is ...
Turkey and Iran have been regional rivals for decades, with Syria as a key battleground. The ousting of Syrian President ...
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