The PKK’s disarmament will help Erdoğan on the foreign policy front as well. He wants to bolster trade, expand energy and ...

Turkey and Iran have been regional rivals for decades, with Syria as a key battleground. The ousting of Syrian President ...

The PKK leader’s calls for the group to disarm and dissolve is a step towards ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish ...

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also ...

After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

Tayyip Erdogan’s long-held goal of ending Turkey’s conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief’s peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

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

In Diyarbakir, residents express optimism over the PKK’s ceasefire decision, following the call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for disarmament. This development could potentially end a 40-year ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish ...

The militants’ ceasefire announcement could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

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