Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

Ankara should not take Kurdish demands for education in their mother tongue as a threat to Turkey’s unity, Zekeriya Yapicioglu, leader of the Free Cause Party (Huda Par), told Rudaw in an ...

It could ease tensions in Syria and Iraq, which have large Kurdish populations; help bring political stability to Turkey; and heal historic divisions with the country’s 15mn Kurdish population.

The PKK Kurdish militant group says it will disband and end its armed struggle as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of armed conflict.

BBC World Service investigation reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq, where a vast area is known to locals as the Forbidden Zone ...

For generations Sherwen Sergeli and his family have made a living from his village's land, but that's now under threat Nestled in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan sits the picturesque village of ...

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

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?

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, two days ...