The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...

Turkey's peace process, aimed at ending a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants, faces uncertainty. Despite a call for ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Turkish authorities have arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of ...

This headline alludes to works of literature to illustrate political realities, beginning with Ernest Hemingway's “A Farewell to Arms” and up to the Kurdish author Ronak Murad's famous novel about the ...

Excerpts: IANS: How do you look at the implications of Abdullah Ocalan’s recent call for the PKK to disarm and dissolve? Is it a call which is given under duress, or, is this something else? Michael ...

Ankara has long viewed the SDF as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), whose imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan last month called for the group he founded to disarm and disband.

Outrage over a fashion show in Gulmarg found wide echo in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Monday with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah saying his government had no role in the event organised at a ...

Since Turkish Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli launched his call in October 2024 for the disbandment and disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in exchange for the release ...

Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah called for a report on a controversial Gulmarg fashion show held during Ramzan, citing disregard for local sensitivities. The event faced backlash from religious ...