Turkey, Kurdish

What to know about the latest effort to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict
Talks between politicians from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party and jailed Kurdish leaders have been gathering steam as they try to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party,
Efforts to end Kurdish militant conflict in Turkey face Syria test
Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead.
Turkey's Kurdish leaders meet jailed politician as the two sides inch toward peace
A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year
Turkey: Erdogan's Kurdish dual strategy
In the past, Bahceli's party had also called for the reintroduction of the death penalty, primarily to execute the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. The paramilitary PKK is classified as a terrorist organization in the EU and the US and has been in armed conflict with the Turkish state since 1984.
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party to visit jailed militant leader again, party sources say
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold face-to-face talks with imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan for a second time, possibly as early as next week, two DEM lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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US calls on Iran to annul Kurdish woman’s death sentence
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of Kurdish woman ...
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Algeria seeks to ease tensions with Turkey over Polisario-Kurdish meeting
After images of Kurdish separatists allegedly hosted by the Polisario Front began circulating, Algeria sought to appease ...
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Turkey’s ruling party hits out at Israel’s support for Kurdish-led SDF
Ankara breaks its silence as Erdogan’s ruling party delivers the first official response to Israel’s support for the ...
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Kurdish, US delegations meet on Peshmerga reforms
A delegation from the Kurdistan Region on Tuesday held a broad meeting with a joint US military and diplomatic delegation to ...
Conflict between Turkey and Kurdish groups rises around key dam in northern Syria
A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups.
Syria's Kurdish community at the center of a post-Assad game of geopolitical tug-of-war
The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...
US, French troops could secure Syria's northern border, Syrian Kurdish official says
Talks are taking place on whether U.S. and French troops could secure a border zone in northern Syria as part of efforts to ...
Turkey Threatens Military Operation Against Syrian Kurdish Fighters
Turkey threatened Tuesday to launch a military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara's ...
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Algeria hosts Kurdish separatists in Tindouf camps: Geopolitical implications
In a move raising significant questions, the Tindouf camps, controlled by the Polisario Front under Algerian jurisdiction, ...