The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

That’s one reason the separatist Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) has resumed its terrorist attacks. What kind of outfit is the PKK? Founded in 1974 by a political science graduate named ...

In Turkey, the Kurdish struggle for some form of self-determination and cultural recognition has been blocked by Erdogan. The peace process with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which began ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups met in northern Iraq on Thursday in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has ...

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 senior official from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Serbest Lezgin, denounced the PKK terror group for decades of violence targeting civilians, political ...