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

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a historic moment ...

ANKARA - Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

Turkey’s Kurdish militants declared an immediate ceasefire in their 40-year war against the Turkish state. The timing was significant. This ...

If President Donald Trump truly wants peace in the Middle East, he should support the Turkey-PKK peace process.

On Thursday, February 27, 2025, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), called in a statement on the group’s members to disband and lay down their arms. He made ...

"In order to pave the way for the implementation of (Ocalan's) call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today," the PKK executive committee said ...

Ocalan on Thursday (February 27, 2025) called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve, a move that President Tayyip Erdogan's government and the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party have voiced ...

Ocalan as pictured, called on the PKK to lay down it's arms and dissolve, a move that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government supports.

ISTANBUL: Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband. It was the first ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — 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 ...