ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) must be dissolved “without any conditions,” Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli said on Tuesday, with the country’s main pro-Kurdish party set for an expected second meeting with the jailed PKK leader.
A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders
Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party said on Friday that its meetings with politicians from across the spectrum about Kurdish-Turkish peace talks were generally positive, despite some concerns, and they are looking forward to a second meeting with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader
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This diplomatic initiative comes after the delegation's latest meetings with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, Future Party chairman Ahmet Davutoğlu, and representatives from the AK Party and Saadet parliamentary groups.
What is the PKK? The Kurdistan WorkersParty, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the ...
The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) İmralı Delegation have made a written application to the Ministry of Justice for a second meeting with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.
"In future, we will take decisive steps to realize our vision for Turkey and an entire region without terror," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his New Year's Day speech. These words were a reference to the current reconciliation process between
A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year
Jan 16 (Reuters) - An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern Syria if the U.S.-allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic ...
The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facing an uncertain future.