Turkey revives Kurdish peace talks after years of deadlock. But military strikes on PKK positions cast doubt on the process. A conflict spanning decades At least 40,000 people have been killed in ...

Commenting on the possibility of easing the detention conditions for PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, Tunc clarified that "any individ ...

A renewed peace effort between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has reignited hopes for a resolution to the four-decade-long ...

In a detailed and exclusive interview with IANS, Michael Rubin, a leading expert on the Middle East, dissects the complex ...

His message was delivered in a 27 February letter from Imrali Prison in Turkey where he remains incarcerated. On 3 March, the PKK announced a ceasefire. It’s not clear that any new process can bring a ...

His call was relayed by a delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party who had met with him in Imrali Prison and then read out his message on 27 February.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) declared a ceasefire with Trkiye last week, following a call from their imprisoned ...

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 ...

The PKK also appealed for Ocalan to be released from Imrali prison, located in the Marmara Sea, to “personally direct and execute” a party congress that would lead to the militants laying down ...

For years, he was the sole inmate at Imrali prison – an Alcatraz-like island south of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara. Turkey began a peace process with the PKK in 2013, and two years later Ocalan made ...