Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second time as part of a political effort to end a decades-long conflict.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

Turkey has announced a potential peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group it has battled for decades. This unexpected move could significantly reshape Turkey’s internal politics and the region’s geopolitical landscape.

Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

The detentions come amid efforts in Turkey aimed at ending a 40-year conflict between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia and the state, which have fostered hopes for peace. The PKK is deemed a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the U.S. and ...

A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurd DEM political party met Saturday with its former president, jailed since 2016, as it pursues an effort to end decades of conflict between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdish PKK rebel group.

ISTANBUL — A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties ... the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. While the PKK has led an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since the 1980s, the DEM is ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead.

Turkish President Erdogan has stated that if the PKK disregards a potential call from their jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down arms, Turkey will achieve a terror-free state through alternative strategies.

Turkey's top diplomat on Friday ruled out a role for French troops in Syria, saying it was only negotiating with the United States which has sought to head off Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters there.

What is the PKK? The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the ...

The ongoing negotiations between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the new government in Damascus should be given a chance and sufficient time in order to avoid a full-scale confrontation,