Syria's political changes continue to run at a good clip. This week, Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a ceasefire deal with the Kurdish-led authority, the Syrian Democratic Forces, in ...
The deal would allow Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish ...
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...
The image of the two men meeting, having discarded their military uniforms and put on suits, illustrates how leaders can ...
In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' ...
Kurdistan refers to the parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran inhabited by Kurds. While stating that it would “comply with and implement the requirements of the call from our own side,” the ...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ... the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has ...
(CNN) — The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ... The historic move came just two days after jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan asked his followers to lay down arms and dissolve the ...
That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the militant PKK - the Kurdistan Workers' Party - in 1978, to fight for Kurdish rights in Turkey. ARRAF: Members of the Turkish party ...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) TURK: (Speaking Kurdish). ARRAF: "All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK dissolve itself." That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the ...