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A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...
President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...
The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that ...
Tankers could soon be lifting Iraqi oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan once again as a key pipeline reopens. The government ...
A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, held a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq. It was the first concrete step ...
Iraq approved a plan for its semi-autonomous Kurdish region to transfer oil to Baghdad, a step toward resuming exports that ...
The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
Turkey's defense ministry blamed the Kurdish People's Protection Units and the Kurdistan Workers Party, while a group aligned with the Kurds blamed Turkey. Bakr Alkasem/AFP/Getty Images.
Turkey fighting the Kurds in Syria is a betrayal of everything the U.S. once stood for in the Middle East, from rebuilding Iraq to destroying ISIS. The U.S. save Kurds like me in Iraq.
Kurds, Turkey’s largest ethnic minority, were then marginalized and rendered politically powerless. In the 1920s and ’30s, Kurdish citizens of Turkey were brutally massacred in military ...