While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

As a partner in the "Our Media" project, IPS Communication Foundation/bianet has collaborated with organizations from Bosnia ...

After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

Tayyip Erdogan’s long-held goal of ending Turkey’s conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief’s peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

The militants’ ceasefire announcement could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...