After decades of managing tensions through careful balancing, Turkey and Iran now find themselves increasingly at odds ...

The PKK’s disarmament will help Erdoğan on the foreign policy front as well. He wants to bolster trade, expand energy and defence co-operation, and improve connectivity with Iraq. The PKK’s presence ...

As a party linked to the PKK terrorist group complains about ambiguity in the terror-free Türkiye initiative, the government ...

The proposed arrangement would see Kurdish forces integrated into the Syrian national army, with PKK leaders expelled to Iraq. Serhan Afacan, chairman of the Turkey-based Iranian Research Center ...

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Esmail Baghaei has welcomed the PKK leader’s call to abandon arms, describing it as a crucial step toward rejecting violence. The senior Iranian diplomat expressed support for the PKK leader’s recent ...

Ocalan's call for "all groups" indicate that he means all PKK offshoots in Syria and Iran. Ocalan added that a separate nation-state, federation, administrative autonomy or culturalist solution ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters march while holding the group’s flag and photo of one of the group’s founding members, Abdullah Öcalan. (irandiplomacy.ir) Recent diplomatic tensions between ...

In a statement on Friday, Spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baqaei welcomed the PKK leader’s call for the group to disarm. He said the decision is a key step toward ...

Turkey and Iran have recalled their ambassadors amid growing diplomatic friction, marking a new phase in regional power struggles since late 2024. This latest dispute follows Iranian criticism of ...

In its statement, the PKK's executive committee said Öcalan's call indicated that a "new historical process has begun in Kurdistan and the Middle East." Kurdistan refers to the parts of Turkey, Iraq, ...