A ceremony held in northern Iraq on Friday could mark a major turning point in the decades-long conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish state.In a powerful symbolic gesture ...

The PKK, which has decided to dissolve itself, held a disarmament ceremony near Sulaymaniyah. KCK Executive Council Co-Chair ...

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish ...

A group of Kurdish militants has begun laying down its weapons after promising to disarm in a peace process designed to end the four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.

The ruling stated that Turkey’s Constitutional Court had failed to provide effective oversight, contributing to the violation ...

Moreover, Selahattin Demirtaş, a prominent figure in the Kurdish political movement and a former presidential candidate, has been imprisoned for years. Undoubtedly, İmamoğlu represents a far more ...

The former Kurdish presidential candidate and party co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş has been jailed since 2016. More than 150 Kurdish mayors have been removed during this same period.

İmamoğlu’s case closely mirrors that of Selahattin Demirtaş, a Kurdish politician and former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP), who has been imprisoned since ...

It served to justify the jailing of civil society leader Osman Kavala and Peoples’ Democratic Party leaders Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ as well as countless others who remain behind bars ...

Comma Press and PEN International have condemned the conviction and 42-year prison sentence of Turkish-Kurdish politician and author Selahattin Demirtaş.

HDP’s former leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned since 2016, was sentenced to 42 years in prison on charges including “helping to destroy the unity and integrity of the state ...