Erbil advised Syrian Kurdish leaders to develop a structured mechanism to engage with Damascus, ensuring that Kurdish rights ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. However, with President Erdogan's democratic backsliding and continued crackdown ...

T URKEY’s TV stars do not have it easy. The global success of the country’s soap operas, episodes that last up to three hours ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

Security continues to deteriorate in northeast Syria as ongoing clashes threaten the country’s transition towards an era of ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...

A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

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

A highly-anticipated call for a possible de-escalation from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) leader, who is ...

A picture of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is displayed inside ...