On July 11, 2025, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call to disarm and dissolve the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 30 guerrillas symbolically burned their weapons in Jasana Cave, Slêmanî, a historic symbol ...

With clashes again erupting between Syrian interim govt forces and the Kurdish SDF in Aleppo, the process to integrate Kurdish units into the Syrian army has faced another setback. The latest clash ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas on Tuesday accused the Turkish government of partaking in a “purge” of Kurds and Christians in Syria.“A purge is taking place in the region ...

ATTENTION EDITORS - REUTERS PICTURE HIGHLIGHT TRANSMITTED BY 1415 GMT ON MARCH 21, 2013 ANK01 - Demonstrators hold Kurdish flags and portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ...

Turks and Kurds may be trading accusations over responsibility for the execution-style murder of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris last week, but they agree on one point: the timing was no ...

Syrian Kurd Mohamed Zidik, 76, still buys his bread and baclavas from his Turkish neighbours in Berlin, but he knows better than to expound on his views about Ankara's offensive in his hometown. Shops ...

Worried over Turkish advances in Syrias north, the Damascus regime has formed an alliance of convenience with the countrys Kurds to prevent their common enemy from gaining ground. President Bashar ...

The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so would lead to a national crisis in Turkey. The ghosts of Turkey’s long ...

“We have no problem living with Turks. But we want to keep our culture. We were born as Kurds, and we also want to die as Kurds.” During the civil war of the 1990s, the Turkish Army—determined to deny ...

ISTANBUL — Sirri Sureyya Onder, a key figure in Turkey’s latest effort to end the four-decade Kurdish conflict, died Saturday. He was 62. Onder died of multiple organ failure 18 days after he was ...