Syrian Kurds gathered this week to listen to a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK has declared a ceasefire with Turkey after its jailed leader Abdullah ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm. The statement from the ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...

Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within ...

The Los Angeles Kings have apologized amid controversy over the origin of the scarves they gave out to fans during the team's 5–3 win over the Utah Hockey Club on its annual Armenian Heritage ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Kings have apologized for selling scarves made in Turkey during Armenian Heritage Night last month. "We, the LA Kings and our partners at Rank & Rally want to ...

Though seemingly unexpected, this call for peace — made a few weeks before Nowruz, the Kurdish New Year, on March 20 — followed months of negotiations between Turkey’s ruling coalition made ...

The deal will hopefully cement the rights of Kurds in Syria. It recognized that “the Kurdish community is an indigenous community in the Syrian state, and the Syrian state guarantees its rights ...

The day after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing ally raised the prospect of a deal to end the four-decade Kurdish insurgency last year, a man and woman armed with assault rifles and ...

The group holds positions in northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, where Turkiye also maintains military bases and often carries out ground and air operations against Kurdish armed groups.

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