PKK disarmament is a victory for Erdoğan
The PKK’s disarmament will help Erdoğan on the foreign policy front as well. He wants to bolster trade, expand energy and defence co-operation, and improve connectivity with Iraq. The PKK’s presence in Iraqi Kurdistan and relationship with Iran complicated those plans. Now Erdoğan sees the chance to cultivate closer ties with Baghdad and Kurdistan.
What’s behind Erdoğan’s calculated shift on Kurds and its potential consequences
Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing the opposition’s coalition.
PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan calls on banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read out by deputies of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Freedom and Democracy Party (DEM) in Istanbul on Thursday,
PKK accepts Öcalan’s call to end armed struggle
The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is intertwined with a deepening imperialist war in the Middle East and involves four countries in the region,
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The Öcalan coup
The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms
What does Öcalan's call for the PKK to lay down arms mean for Turkey and Syria?
In a historic move, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called for the group to disarm, paving the way for a new peace process in Turkey and a reshaping of alliances in Syria. View on euron
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Abdullah Öcalan’s appeal won’t end Türkiye’s long war with Kurdish minority
There’s a reason to be sceptical about Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace. Efforts to end the fighting in 1993, 1995-1996, and 2013-2015 all led nowhere.
Öcalan calls on Kurdish PKK to lay down arms and dissolve itself
Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish question could be solved by “democratizing” the Turkish state.
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Erdoğan warns PKK must uphold ceasefire or face military force
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday warned military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will continue unless the group fully commits to disarmament, following its unilateral ceasefire declaration earlier in the day.
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Terror-free Türkiye to benefit 85 million, President Erdoğan says
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Türkiye has entered a new phase and that the terror-free initiative will benefit 85 million people in the