If President Donald Trump truly wants peace in the Middle East, he should support the Turkey-PKK peace process.
Men watch the announcement of PKK's abandonment of armed struggle on a television screen inside a traditional Turkish tea house, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Ilyas Akengin/AFP via Getty Images Turkey’s ...
(Safin HAMID/AFP/AFP) A senior Kurdistan Workers' Party commander has told AFP the group will take no further steps in the peace process with Turkey, urging it to advance negotiations by freeing PKK ...
The Kurdish militant PKK said Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq, urging Ankara to take legal steps to protect the peace process. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ...
(CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end ...
For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country ...
QANDIL, Iraq (AP) — A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered ...
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Monday hailed the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkish soil as a "critical" step that completed the first phase of Ankara's peace process with the Kurdish ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alpaslan Ozerdem, George Mason University (THE CONVERSATION) Turkey’s peace process is ...