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Turkey's parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK ...
Residents of a camp in northern Iraq housing Kurdish refugees from Turkey say difficult conditions in the camp have not eased ...
Makhmour Camp, seen by Ankara as a PKK stronghold, will be emptied by September under a Turkey-Iraq-KRG peace agreement, ...
The first meeting of Turkey’s newly formed parliamentary commission established to provide legal and political frameworks for ...
A newly formed parliamentary committee has begun meeting to oversee a peace process with a Kurdish militant group.
Turkey's government has called the PKK's disarmament an opportunity for a peaceful future and promised to work toward stability and reconciliation. In February, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has ...
The ceremony took place under tight security at a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan - the disarmament process is expected to last all summer.
That sent a chilling message to the opposition and further narrowed the space in Turkey for democratic engagement. A sense of ...
For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...
ANKARA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons within days, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK Party said on Tuesday, the clearest sign yet that ...
Making peace with the PKK—something no Turkish leader managed in four decades—is bound to strengthen Erdogan’s powerful grip on Turkey.
“Turkey’s Kurds have expectations, the Turks are resistant, the process is vulnerable to international influences and then there are the PKK’s internal dynamics.” ...