Kurdish and Turkish statements indicate both sides recognize the limits of violence. Yet the PKK says an expected quid pro ...

It is essential to expose the underlying grounds of the process that led the PKK to dissolve itself and the falsity of its ...

"I believe Western and Israeli political and strategic elites still don’t realize how fragile this regime is." ...

Architecture in the north is characterised by open structures; in the south buildings are oriented inward. The houses reflect ...

The decision to disarm will have significant security and political ramifications for the region.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated ...

The Kurdish militant group has led an armed insurgency since 1984 that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate ...

Turkey’s president and Iraq’s prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate against security threats, including ...

In eastern Turkey, two high school friends taught themselves how to make the daf — a shallow drum popular in Kurdish, Persian and Middle Eastern music. Their brand, Elefra Percussion, is a way to ...