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A Kurdish militant group could soon announce a historic decision to disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey to end a 40-year insurgency, a pro-Kurdish party suggested Friday.
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said on Friday it was only a matter of time before the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ...
The Firat news agency reported what it called a statement by the PKK after its May 5-7 gathering in northern Iraq, where the insurgent group is now based after a more than 40-year conflict with the ...
Despite recent geopolitical shifts, the underlying drivers of militancy - from occupation to foreign intervention - remain ...
Turkey’s president and Iraq’s prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate against security threats, including ...
Sirri Sureyya Onder, a prominent pro-Kurdish party lawmaker and key figure in Turkey's tentative process to end the outlawed ...
who played a pivotal role in peace talks between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). “The late Onder, both as deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament and as a member of the Imrali ...
ISTANBUL — Sirri Sureyya Onder, a key figure in Turkey’s latest effort to end the four-decade Kurdish conflict, died Saturday ...
or DEM Party, and was one of several politicians to visit jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan in a bid to find a path to peace. Onder and fellow DEM Party lawmaker Pervin ...
a prominent pro-Kurdish party lawmaker and key figure in Turkey's tentative process to end the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) insurgency, died on Saturday at age 62, his party said.