As well as more than a decade of civil war, the Syrian Kurds have faced years of conflict with its northern neighbour, Turkey - a battle they ... of Turkish-backed rebel groups known as the ...

Strengthening ties between the Kurds and ... enshrined in Turkey’s constitution. So, what lies behind Turkey’s gesture? PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu shows a map of the Gaza Strip and ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent ... designated the PKK a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. U.S.-Turkey relations have faltered since Erdogan renewed calls for the ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants are stoking ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent ... designated the PKK a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. U.S.-Turkey relations have faltered since Erdogan renewed calls for the ...