A ceremony held in northern Iraq on Friday could mark a major turning point in the decades-long conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish state.In a powerful symbolic gesture ...

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

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

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 ...

Comma Press and PEN International have condemned the conviction and 42-year prison sentence of Turkish-Kurdish politician and author Selahattin Demirtaş.

HDP’s former leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned since 2016, was sentenced to 42 years in prison on charges including “helping to destroy the unity and integrity of the state ...

A prime example is Selahattin Demirtaş, a former presidential candidate who gained seats in the 2015 elections and denied Erdoğan’s party a parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002.

Turkey’s jailed electoral kingmaker predicts Erdoğan’s demise Millions of Kurdish votes will prove decisive in the May 14 election, Selahattin Demirtaş tells POLITICO.

Selahattin Demirtaş says Turkey’s opposition has its best-ever chance to oust president in May polls ...