The PKK declared an end to its insurgency in May last year and its militants burned some weapons in a symbolic ceremony last July. A few months later it announced its withdrawal f ...

By Ece Toksabay ANKARA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A Turkish parliamentary commission voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve a report envisaging legal reforms alongside the militant Kurdistan Workers ...

Jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan said democratic politics must replace armed struggle and praised the roles of Turkey’s political leaders in the peace process, in a ...

BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A Turkish parliamentary commission's approval of a report setting out a roadmap for legal reforms alongside the disbandment of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant ...

Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand. In a slickly managed ceremony across the border in Iraq Friday, members ...

Salih Muslim, former co-chair and current member of the co-presidency council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Kurdish political movement in Syria, spoke to bianet recent developments in ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants are stoking ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Monday hailed the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkish soil as a "critical" step that completed the first phase of Ankara's peace process with the Kurdish ...