Erdogan was already confronting mounting public fatigue with his presidency. His hubris and domineering leadership style have ...

Turkey's president says he has appointed a team of legal experts to start working on a new constitution which critics say ...

Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

The PKK has fulfilled its historic mission” – with these words, and a final communique with the weight of a history-making ...

The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced ...

Sinan Ülgen considers the reasons for, and implications of, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s decision to disband.

Some, like political analyst Kawa Hassan, see the announcement as a potential opening for peace, while others warn that ...

When Abdullah Ocalan said his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should lay down its arms and disband after more than four ...

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups suspected of being affiliated with the PKK, such as the Sinjar Resistance Units ...

After decades of insurgency, the PKK plans to disarm and disband. Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria. For forty years, ...

The PKK has "waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984", said Politico. Originally, it aimed to create an ...

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