After 40 years, the Kurdish group PKK announced disbandment and an end to the Turkish insurgency. What is the PKK? Who are ...

After more than a four-decade insurgency carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against Turkey, the US-designated terror group, says it has abandoned its armed struggle against Ankara.

The country’s main Kurdish separatist group is disbanding and laying down arms – initiating a process that could both ...

The decision to disband PKK was a key step towards a 'terror-free Turkey', and the process would be monitored by state ...

Many of Turkey’s Kurds view Mr. Ocalan as a potent symbol of the struggle for Kurdish rights. And despite his imprisonment, ...

The first International Conference on Education, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship (ICTripleE) commenced in Erbil on Tuesday, ...

Syria's Islamist leaders said on Sunday that Kurdish demands for the country to adopt a decentralized system of government in a post-Assad political order posed a threat to national unity. "We clearly ...

A new report by PEN Norway examines how Kurdish journalists, writers and activists are discriminated against in the Turkish legal system due to official attitudes towards their native language. This ...

I am examining the future progress of the Kurdish Question and its consequences. The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia ...

NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Syria’s interim president rejected Kurdish demands for a decentralized system, calling it a threat to national unity after ...

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The Kurdish quest for a state has remained unrequited. The nearest the Kurds came to realising this ambition was at the Treaty of Sevres in 1920, negotiated to dismantle the Ottoman empire.