Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about ... told AFP at a coffeehouse in Diyarbakir, a city in the Kurdish-majority southeast of Turkey. "All of us are looking ...

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 ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — 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 ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has ...

“Beni bash” was good morning, “shakrik klo” were little caramelised lumps of sugar, a treat to be taken with strong black Kurdish tea. Perhaps the most-used expression however, became the ...