The PKK, which has decided to dissolve itself, held a disarmament ceremony near Sulaymaniyah. KCK Executive Council Co-Chair ...

Click to read the article in Kurdish / Turkish. Penned in Turkish by jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş, storybook "Devran" and novel "Leylan" have been published in Kurdish. Demirtaş, the former ...

A group of Kurdish militants has begun laying down its weapons after promising to disarm in a peace process designed to end the four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

The ruling stated that Turkey’s Constitutional Court had failed to provide effective oversight, contributing to the violation ...

Three years ago, Selahattin Demirtaş was celebrating a political revolution in Turkey. Alarmed by the increasingly autocratic rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kurdish former human rights lawyer ...

A young man holds up a photo of Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, in prison since November 4, 2016, at a demonstration in Diyarbakir, Türkiye, April 4, 2024.

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish ...

Former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtaş, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for his release, said the Turkish opposition should unite against rising oppression and moves to ...

On December 2, she wrote on Twitter: “Our client and my brother Selahattin Demirtaş lost consciousness due to chest tightness and inability to breathe on Nov. 26 at 5:30 a.m.

Selahattin Demirtaş was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in jail Monday by a Turkish court for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Demirtas has been given the highest punishment for the offence ...

Ankara (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Selahattin Demirtaş, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and presidential candidate, will serve four years and eight months in jail ...

ANKARA — Selahattin Demirtaş, Turkey’s most prominent Kurdish politician, appeared exhausted when I met him on a recent evening at his party’s headquarters in the capital. Parliament had just gone ...