Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pro-Kurd protesters hold flags with portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. February 16, 2019.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey's ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

ISTANBUL — Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, two ...

QANDIL, Iraq — A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in ...

ANKARA, May 25 (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on ⁠Monday ⁠a court ruling that ousted the leadership ⁠of ...

India is the world’s largest democracy, a regional military power, and a global diplomatic heavyweight. It may also be the world’s only country, besides Cyprus, whose territory two separate countries ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, ...

For decades, the Turkish army has operated in northern Iraq and has established bases and posts in the mountainous Kurdish region. This autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq has its own ...

A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with Turkey. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, two days after ...