ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday held a first meeting with pro-Kurdish politicians who are working to bring an end to the 40-year conflict between Turkey and Kurdish ...

The recent PKK ceasefire came against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, including the reconfiguration of ...

Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in an historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's ...

a Kurdish militia, has partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), Turkey, where political and civil society activism has assumed significant intensity despite government ...

KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) – Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey’s bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination – one of ...

KIZILTEPE, Turkey - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination - one of hundreds of ...

Syrian Kurds hold flags as they gather after Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms on Thursday, a move that could end its ...

Cihan Sincar holds onto hope that Turkey's efforts to end the Kurdish insurgency will fulfill her late husband Mehmet Sincar's peace dreams. The political conflict has claimed over 40,000 lives since ...

Victims of Turkey's Kurdish Militant Conflict Long for Peace By Daren Butler KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency ...

Cihan Sincar, widow of the late Kurdish politician Mehmet Sincar, visits her husband's grave in Kiziltepe ...

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