ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday, even as the militants' imprisoned leader called on his group to ...

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Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's ...

Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week after jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The conflict between the PKK and Turkey has had devastating effects on Turkey and neighbors. Ocalan’s peace call on Thursday marked a major turning point and could have far-reaching implications ...

Over the weekend, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced it would uphold a ceasefire requested by their leader, who remains imprisoned in Turkey. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren takes look back ...

If President Donald Trump truly wants peace in the Middle East, he should support the Turkey-PKK peace process.

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...

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 ...

His appeal, under the heading “Call for Peace and Democratic Society,” came a decade after the last negotiations between Turkey and the PKK broke down, raising the prospect of an end to one of ...

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that since the conflict between the PKK and Turkey began in 1984, it has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people. However, according to ...