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 ...

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 ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dismissed demands by Syrian Kurdish groups for Syria to adopt a decentralised system of ...

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 ...

Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces described the attack as ‘one of the deadliest’ against it in a while. Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) flash the victory sign while ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 ...