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A group of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday concluded a formal weapons handover ceremony in northern Iraq by burning their surrendered weapons, symbolically ending ...
In 2013, three Kurdish political activists were killed in central Paris, including the founding member of the Kurdish Workers’ Party. All three women were shot in the head in the apparent ...
The Kurdish group Komala’s Secretary-General, Abdullah Mohtadi, is in Washington and has given an interview in the wake of the Israeli attack. According to a post on X, he has also been holding ...
An Iranian-Kurdish footballer has been arrested on charges of “incitement against the regime” as Tehran cracks down on anti-government protesters, according to state-aligned news agency Tasim.
The Kurdish region's Ministry of Natural Resources said in a statement that Tuesday's explosion was caused by a drone strike and that it came after an attack on the Khurmala oil field, in Irbil ...
As such, the PKK is not just a Kurdish movement in Turkey. For the KRG, the presence of the PKK and the Turkish army, and the decision by Ankara to expand the war into northern Iraq, has always ...
The PKK has sought to create an independent Kurdish state on Turkish soil, where the Kurds make up some 20% of Turkey's 86 million population. The U.S., the European Union and Turkey have ...
“Today is a holy day, a blessed day," Emine Atac, 45, told AFP in Kurdish in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, considered to be the center of Turkey’s Kurdish community. "We are very happy.
In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.
Kurdish activist and anti-racism group stage a protest against the recent shooting at the Kurdish culture center, holding Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, flag in Paris, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.