As a delegation of lawmakers met figures relevant to Türkiye’s “terror-free initiative” to end the terrorist group PKK on ...

This includes Selahattin Demirtaş, who challenged Erdoğan for the presidency but has been locked up since 2016. “The state’s conventional understanding of the Kurdish issue is that it is a ...

The country is going through a new stage in the fight against the PKK with the 'terror-free Türkiye initiative' proposed by a ...

Although Erdogan might deplore the effect on Turkey’s domestic political scene, he may yet see an autonomous Kurdish region recognized within a new Syrian constitution. WOMEN TAKE PART in a ...

Turkey's government is reaching out to the Kurdish population at home while backing militias fighting Kurds in Syria. What is behind Recep Tayyip Erdogan's approach? "In future, we will take ...

The Kurdish population – estimated at over 12 million – has long faced systemic discrimination, cultural erasure, and military crackdowns. Since the Islamic Republic’s founding in 1979 ...

A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in ...

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

Recently, senior members of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, met jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and Selahattin Demirtas, another imprisoned figurehead of the Kurdish movement.

A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met ... met the party’s former co-chairperson, Selahattin Demirtas, at Edirne prison near the Greek border.