A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...
A delegation from one of Turkey's biggest pro-Kurdish political parties met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in ...
Turkish police in the southern province of Mersin said they had detained a pro-Kurdish mayor on Friday, along with five other managers of the municipality, as part of a terrorism-related investigation ...
Abdullah Ocalan, jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, has been cited as indicating a willingness to call on the PKK to lay down arms in a peace process to end the ...
the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. While the PKK has led an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since the 1980s, the DEM is the latest party representing left ...
The detentions come amid efforts in Turkey aimed at ending a 40-year conflict between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia and the state, which have fostered hopes for peace.
pro-Kurdish DEM was an extension of the banned organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and should be banned. In the past, Bahceli's party had also called for the reintroduction of the death ...
Many of the elected officials have been sentenced to jail on terror-related charges, often accused of association with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). "In the Turkish Republic, especially ...