Turkey has been at war with the PKK for almost five decades. Much of that conflict has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast ...
After decades of fighting, the Kurdish group’s imprisoned leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms. By Ben Hubbard Ben Hubbard covers Turkey and the surrounding region.
The PKK was established by Ocalan in 1978, initially seeking full independence and statehood for Turkey's large Kurdish minority, but later asking for autonomy. Since then, as many as 40,000 ...
ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement ...
The gambit could give the Turkish president a chance to extend his power, while also calming a conflict that threatens to ...
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