ANKARA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Friday that peace-related laws were needed for a transition to democratic integration in Turkey, in a statement read out a ...

Kurdish fighters who have laid down their arms should be reintegrated into society, Turkish lawmakers urged in a key report released Wednesday, while ruling out an "amnesty". The recommendations of ...

Journalists reporting on the Kurdish issue have faced arrest, assault and censorship of social media accounts. RSF calls on the authorities to end their persecution of these journalists.

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Friday that peace-related laws were needed for a transition to democratic integration in Turkey, in a ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he is pleased to see steps taken in neighbouring Syria to ...

The recommendations, which were overwhelmingly approved by the National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission, ...

In the Iraqi mountains near Iran, an exiled Kurdish Iranian commander told AFP that whether or not the US launches strikes on Iran, he will still seek regime change in order to win self-determination ...

Fighting has returned to northeast Syria. Government forces are again pushing to take control of areas still held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). A temporary truce is now in place, but after ...

At a military base in northeast Syria, Roksan Mohammed recalled joining the battle against Islamic State group jihadists. Now ...

"The process we are currently in, whether in terms of examples of international conflict resolution or the history and experience of solution-seeking in Turkey, carries unique characteristics that do ...

A Turkish parliamentary commission has recommended reforms to support a renewed peace process with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, but ties any legal step to verified disarmament by the group ...

Five Iranian Kurdish groups based in Iraq have announced that they have formed a political coalition aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic and ultimately achieving Kurdish autonomy.