The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish lawmakers overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group ...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take no further steps in indirect talks with Turkey as long as its founder Abdullah ...

Turkey’s peace process is advancing. In August 2025, three months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – commonly known as the PKK – announced its formal disbandment, a Turkish parliamentary committee ...

The PKK says it will not advance the peace process with Turkey unless Abdullah Ocalan is freed. Senior commanders call for political recognition of Kurds as Ankara continues indirect negotiations.

Turkey's indigenous Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), the Bayraktar Akinci, demonstrated new precision-strike ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish parliamentary committee set up to oversee a new peace initiative with Kurdish militants on Friday voted in favor of a controversial step to meet with the militant group’s ...

The Kurdish militant PKK began withdrawing all of its forces from Turkish soil to northern Iraq on Sunday, while urging Ankara to release its jailed leader to ensure the success of the peace process.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alpaslan Ozerdem, George Mason University (THE CONVERSATION) Turkey’s peace process is ...