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‘The times are changing’: Kurds cautiously optimistic about PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey
For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...
Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...
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Turkey's Erdogan discusses Russia-Ukraine war, Syria in first official call with Trump
In their first official call since Trump's return to office, the pair discussed efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, the ...
The New York Sun11d
Is This the End of Turkey’s 40-Year Conflict With the Kurds?
Kurdistan Workers Party, in a major development, declares a ceasefire following a call from its imprisoned founder, Abdullah ...
The Economist10d
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire
Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...
Al-Monitor3d
Turkey’s Erdogan says he's ready to meet with Kurds brokering peace with PKK
Erdogan's willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders signals a potential shift in Turkey's stalled peace process with the PKK ...
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Conflict Between Turkey and Armed Kurdish Groups
If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent ... designated the PKK a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. U.S.-Turkey relations have faltered since Erdogan renewed calls for the ...
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Turkey’s old trick: Keeping Kurds off the new Mideast map - opinion
A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/SERTAC KAYAR/FILE PHOTO ...
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Turkey-Iran tensions soar over Tehran's ties with Syrian Kurds
Asked whether Iran was likely to support Syrian Kurdish forces, which Turkey considers a terrorist group, Fidan was blunt. "If you try to create unrest in another country by supporting a group ...
Turkey's Erdogan welcomes deal between Kurdish forces and Syrian government
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and ...
Kurdistan region marks 37 years since Halabja massacre
The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that took place on ...