The US has approved a $304 million missile sale to Turkey to strengthen NATO ties, pending congressional approval. The deal, ...

Sinan Ülgen considers the reasons for, and implications of, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s decision to disband.

The PKK announced on May 12 that it was dissolving itself, bringing an end to its more than four-decade armed insurgency. The ...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine ...

Two recent developments present the new Syrian government with a critical opportunity to stabilize the country. First, US ...

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups ...

After the decision by the Kurdish militant group PKK to disband, Turkey was eyeing Wednesday a raft of legal and technical ...

After over 40 years of fighting, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization by many countries, has officially laid down its arms and dissolved.

The PKK has "waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984", said Politico. Originally, it aimed to create an ...

Rewind: The Gitmo operations began after Trump ordered an expansion of the base in an escalation of U.S. efforts to deport ...

The decision to disarm will have significant security and political ramifications for the region.

The process initiated by Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s statement on February 27, and further shaped by his extensive work and ...