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.

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.

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,

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish guerrilla, on Thursday,

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a surprising call for his supporters to lay down their arms

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms

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,

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

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.

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.

President Erdoğan issued a warning to the PKK to adhere to its promise as the terrorist group announced it would stop attacks following a call by

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Türkiye has entered a new phase and that the terror-free initiative will benefit 85 million people in the