IRBIL, Iraq -- A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in ...

U.S. administrations castigated the PKK and praised democracy but never considered that the PKK created the only oasis of progressivism in the region.

A wildfire killed a second person in Turkey’s western Izmir province on Tuesday as blazes raged for a seventh day across ...

Faced with right-wing attacks amid a growing national profile, Japan’s Kurds could benefit from simple, pragmatic ...

Turkey arrested three more opposition mayors early on Saturday as part of an investigation into alleged graft, officials from ...

It has now been more than a month since Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, called for his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disband more than 40 years ...

The 1915 mass killings of Assyrians, known to survivors and descendants as Seyfo or "the sword", have been remembered across Turkey and the Assyrian diaspora on the 110th anniversary of the events.

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Supporters display a poster depicting the jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Feb. 27. YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...