After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the ...

Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, announced that imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' ...

The repression of political opposition and journalists in Turkey is increasing in the context of the deepening social ...

On the other hand, he has threatened to “bury” the Kurds “in the ground” if they do not respond to Bahceli’s overtures and ...

Erdoğan’s government has stepped up its crackdown on political parties including those in parliament, the media and more ...

Calls from prominent Australians for freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan Prominent Australians have joined the global call on the government of Turkey to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, ...

Just before 2024 drew to a close, the long imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan ... On the other hand, while Öcalan remains a major political symbol for Kurds in Turkey, his influence ...

In particular, he welcomed a statement from Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers party (PKK), to the effect that it was time for peace in Turkey and its neighbourhood.

This would give Turkey a free hand to crush the Kurdish ... an originally Marxist-Leninist movement founded by Abdullah Öcalan, had some degree of ideological closeness to Assad's regime.