Residents of the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwest Syria were able to freely celebrate Newroz (the New Year) for the first ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

AFRIN, Syria - Kurds from Afrin in northwest Syria are returning to the city after years of displacement only to face ...

On Thursday in Diyarbakir, a predominantly Kurdish city in eastern Turkey, Mr. Ocalan’s call for disarmament drew mixed emotions. Hundreds of people had gathered in the city center to listen to ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

VOA Kurdish spoke to locals in Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city. While many residents supported Ocalan’s message of peace, others wondered whether his call would be met by ...

Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) display flags with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, during a rally to ...

Zak Amin gives a lecture about Kurdish attire during his Kurdish heritage and culture class at Moorhead High School on Feb. 12. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with ...