Turkey has backed anti-Assad Syrian forces for years and maintains bases in Syria's north. Its defence ministry said there ...

Alevi organizations reacted to the ongoing executions and torture carried out by HTŞ forces, which have taken control of the ...

Syria's top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries Sunday called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions ...

The jailed leader of the PKK called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Wednesday that a meeting between Russian and US representatives to ...

Prosecutors accused the bar association of "legitimizing the use of force, violence, or threats by a terrorist organization." ...

Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has ...

The PKK is a militant group founded by Ocalan in southeast Turkey in 1978 with an ideology based on Marxist-Leninist ideas.

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...

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Shifting to recent developments in Syria, al-Sharaa accused Israel of attempting to impose a new reality in the occupied ...

Turkey's 40-year battle against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could be nearing an end after its jailed leader, Abdullah ...