Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second time as part of a political effort to end a decades-long conflict.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Iraq on Sunday for talks with officials on the fight against Kurdish militants, security issues and bilateral ties, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Saturday.
Talks between politicians from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party and jailed Kurdish leaders have been gathering steam as they try to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party,
A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurd DEM political party met Saturday with its former president, jailed since 2016, as it pursues an effort to end decades of conflict between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdish PKK rebel group.
Turkish President Erdogan has stated that if the PKK disregards a potential call from their jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down arms, Turkey will achieve a terror-free state through alternative strategies.
A delegation from Turkiye's pro-Kurdish political party met jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas in a step towards ending a 40-year conflict. The meeting, following a rendezvous with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan,
ISTANBUL — A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish ... the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan WorkersParty, or PKK. While the PKK has led an armed insurgency against the ...
A border guard official told AFP that the guards were patrolling a village near the Turkish border when "shooting and clashes" with the PKK broke out.
What is the PKK? The Kurdistan WorkersParty, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the ...
Two Iraqi border guards were killed on Friday during a clash with fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraq's interior ministry said.
Two Iraqi border guards were killed, and one injured, in a clash with PKK fighters near Zakho at the Turkey-Iraq border. The PKK is recognized as a terrorist group by several countries. The confrontation reportedly took place after PKK members were denied border passage.
Iraq’s interior minister blamed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) “terrorists” for a deadly attack on border guards in Duhok on Friday morning.