A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency. The members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, ...

Turkey has annulled its 1973 pipeline agreement with Iraq to reset legal exposure and pressure Baghdad into a more favorable ...

Turkey’s Kurdish political movement is unexpectedly emerging as a crucial partner in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ongoing ...

The ceremony took place under tight security at a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan - the disarmament process is expected to last all ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday warned Kurdish and other groups in Syria against pursuing ...

This is the closest Turkey and the insurgents have come to peace since the PKK took up arms to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

How has daily life for civilians in Syria changed since the fall of the Assad government? The collapse of the Baath regime ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Thursday called on the Turkish parliament to ensure that those members of the Kurdistan Workers’ ...

But they must not allow Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to use peace as a smokescreen for repression. Having ruled ...

Kurds are the biggest minority in Turkey, making up between 15% and 20% of the population, according to Minority Rights Group International. They also have a significant presence in northern Syria ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 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 country.