Turkish police have detained 282 suspects in the past five days in a large-scale operation targeting the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday.

The meeting is part of efforts to draw a roadmap for the new peace process that could lead to resolving long-standing tensions in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. A Path Toward Peace This marks the ...

D.C., in one of the cases temporarily blocked the removal of three transgender women from a women's prison. NPR obtained a copy of the new clothing policy, dated Feb. 3, that was shared with ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...

DIAZ: So his newly issued policy said trans women in federal prison have to hand over all of their female clothing and other items if they had them. It was the first clear evidence of how the ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is poised to issue a "historic call" seeking a lasting solution to the longstanding Kurdish issue in Turkey. The anticipated ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party on Tuesday said that jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan is expected to make a ...

ANKARA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish ... to Turkish justice and serve prison sentences. But Bahceli also spoke in October of the prospect of Ocalan being given the "right to hope ...

A “historic appeal” amid political efforts to end the long-running conflict with the Turkish state is expected to be made by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, according to the Turkish pro ...

Turkey's pro ... a key Erdogan ally, for Ocalan to call on the PKK to disarm. Bahceli said at the time there was no need for a new peace process, saying that the PKK should surrender unconditionally ...

Turkey ranked 165th out of 180 in Reporters Without Borders ... DEM), was able to see him on the Turkish prison island of Imrali as part of a “family visit.” This marked an end to forty-three months ...