Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates and the PKK headquarters in Iraq remain ambivalent. What are their options?

Türkiye's top diplomat on Thursday said U.S. President Donald Trump should be convinced to withdraw American troops from ...

Türkiye sees the YPG group as the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, and the European Union, had ...

In Syria, a PKK-affiliated Kurdish militia called the People’s Protection Units (YPG) forms the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US-backed force that fought ISIS. The country ...

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Over 1.2M have returned home, but lack of basic services and security risks hampering recovery efforts, says UN - Anadolu ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will kick off a two-day visit to the United States on Tuesday to discuss Kurdish armed ...

YPG established control in northern Syria during civil war Turkey views YPG as indistinguishable from PKK YPG seeks decentralization, not independence, in Syria Feb 27 (Reuters) - Abdullah Ocalan ...

“Regardless of whether they are called PKK, YPG or PYD, all extensions of the terrorist organisation must dissolve themselves,” Celik said, in reference to the Syrian Kurdish People’s ...

Turkey has long regarded the YPG/PYD, which operates under the SDF banner, as an extension of the PKK, a group that has waged ...

It is essential for all armed elements involved in terror acts in Syria to be excluded from equation,' says Hakan Fidan ...