On Tuesday, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the fascist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), part of the “People’s Alliance” led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, declared, “When the isolation of the ...

After four decades of fighting, almost 40,000 casualties, and billions of dollars spent, Turkey has failed to contain Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Despite many cross-border operations, the group ...

The Erbil-based Rudaw Media Network in Iraq recently reported that, “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that his country is engaged in talks with its neighbors on disarmament of ...

When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey, Leila hoped she might soon be reunited with her son.

Kurdish youths holds a poster of jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan during Newroz celebrations on March 21, 2025 in Diyarbakir, Turkey. — Sedat Suna/Getty Images The outlawed Kurdistan ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday. As ...

The PKK, numbering 4,000 in Iraq and 2,000 in Turkey, is a vicious bunch. Since 1984, when it began pushing for an independent homeland in southeastern Turkey, over 30,000 have been killed in ...

In a rare incident, a PJAK fighter was killed in an Iranian drone strike in Iraqi Kurdistan. A PJAK official insisted that no attack on PJAK would go unanswered. The drone attack, which occurred last ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government accused Kurdish authorities on Sunday of bringing fighters from Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his rebel militant group lay down its arms and disband in a momentous announcement that could bring an end to a bloody decades-long conflict with ...

Turkey could send troops into Iraq any day now. It's massing ground forces on its southeastern border for a possible strike against the terrorist/separatist group the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

A lethal conflict is underway in the predominantly Kurdish towns of southeastern Turkey, with Turkish security forces on the offensive against local Kurdish militants. The recent crisis is the result ...