Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

The Kurds are a stateless people of up to 45 million living in the Kurdistan mountains of west Asia, spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria. Their ...

Across the mountainous Iraqi border, which for years saw PKK insurgents slip into Turkey to stage attacks, Kurds in Sulaymaniyah welcomed the ceasefire with hopeful expectation. Najmadin Bahaadin ...

The group began fighting the Turkish state in the early 1980s, originally seeking independence for the Kurds, who are believed to make up about 15 percent or more of Turkey’s population.

or DEM, delegation members releasing an statement from Ocalan, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu) ...