Middle East's emerging geopolitics favor strong central states, while space for sub-state actors is shrinking. This trend has ...

Numan Kurtulmuş, the speaker of Parliament, met for nearly three hours on Wednesday with deputy group leaders coordinating ...

By Ece Toksabay and Daren Butler ISTANBUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A deal under which Kurdish forces abandoned long-held territory in Syria to the Syrian government could pave the way for Turkey to advance ...

On Friday, 30 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) threw their weapons into a bonfire at a meeting in Sulaimaniyah, a city in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. After hiding ...

A new comprehensive agreement, which stabilizes a fragile cease-fire and ends weeks of clashes in northern Syria, will see the YPG’s gradual ...

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 ...

Mediation efforts led from Iraq’s Kurdistan region are gathering pace to avert a new escalation in northeastern Syria, as ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take ...

The army's Operations Command says the terror group committed "widespread violations" in both the Qandil Mountains and the province of Hasakah.

President Tayyip Erdogan said an agreement between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeast had helped relieve pressure on a peace process between ...

Turkey’s peace process is advancing. In August 2025, three months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – commonly known as the PKK – announced its formal disbandment, a Turkish parliamentary committee ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The jailed leader of a ...