Supporters of pro-Kurdish DEM Party wave flags with portraits of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan at a rally for Newroz in Istanbul, Turkiye, March 17, 2024 [Umit Bektas/Reuters] Eventually ...

The Kurdish-led force that runs northeast Syria has agreed to integrate into a new national army, but some of its supporters remain wary. The Kurdish-led force that runs northeast Syria has agreed ...

"The PKK has fulfilled its historical mission" and brought "the Kurdish issue to a point where it can be resolved through democratic politics," it said. The move was welcomed as an "important step ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Around 400 delegates have arrived in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava) to attend the first Kurdish national conference aimed at bolstering Kurdish unity in Syria.

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish group, in February called for it to lay down arms and dissolve. Ocalan helped found the group in 1978 and was arrested just over two decades ...

A separatist Kurdish group agreed to lay down arms to end a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey, a historic step that could strengthen the Nato member’s aspirations to become a regional ...

How does this regional commotion impact a century-old quest by Kurds for statehood? In the past century, two diaspora-based states, viz. Israel and Armenia, have been created in West Asia.