Turkey’s newly formed parliamentary commission - established to secure political and legal guarantees for the disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) - is set to begin its work in early ...

PKK leader Öcalan backs peace efforts after DEM Party visit, praises symbolic disarmament. Turkish parliament forms 51-member ...

The Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) issued a strongly worded statement criticizing the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Tuesday condemned a call ...

DEM Party demands Kurdish rights as foundation for Turkey's democracy, condemning language bans and assimilation policies.

It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its arms and disband, but it is not clear when this process will begin and how ...

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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with ...

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region | AFP The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ ...

Breaking taboo with the mention of Kurdistan in the Kurdistan Democratic Party's name is a sign that Kurdish politics in Turkey are changing. With Kurdistan in its name, this political party won't ...

The protests sweeping the Middle East have motivated thousands of Kurds from all walks of life to demonstrate in cities across Iraqi Kurdistan. While their demands—an end to widespread ...

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