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‘The times are changing’: Kurds cautiously optimistic about PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey
For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...
Kurdish leader Ocalan issues message from prison, urging PKK to disarm to make peace with Turkey
in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu) Kurdish women gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members ...
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Turkey’s Kurds wary of path to peace after PKK declares ceasefire
(IHA via AP, File) A supporter of pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), holds a picture of the party’s former ...
The Economist8d
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire
Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...
The Washington Post13d
Turkey's Kurds wary of path to peace after PKK declares ceasefire
also has a son serving a prison term for being a member of the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. He was wounded in fighting in Diyarbakir’s ...
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Kurdish leader Ocalan issues message from prison, urging PKK to disarm to make peace with Turkey
In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul ... In the predominantly Kurdish cities of Diyarbakir and Van in southeast Turkey, people gathered in public spaces, dancing in anticipation ...
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also has a son serving a prison term for being a member of the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. He was wounded in fighting in Diyarbakir’s ...