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 ...
On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK ...
A Kurdish militant group who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire today, two days after their jailed leader called for the group to disarm from his prison island.
The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.
The gambit could give the Turkish president a chance to extend his power, while also calming a conflict that threatens to ...