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Kurdish Separatist Fighters in Iraq Begin Laying Down Weapons as Part of Peace Process With Turkey
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first conc
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...
The Kurdish Library of New York says there are about 28 million Kurds — about half in Turkey, a quarter in Iran, a sixth in Iraq and small fractions in Syria and the Soviet Union.
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Ocalan, who has been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, first urged the PKK in February to convene a congress ...
A history of struggle, and of betrayal. With the Ottoman Empire’s collapse after World War I, the Kurds were promised an independent homeland in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.
As a new round of fighting begins in Syria, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Bilal Wahab of the Washington Institute about the history of the military alliance between the U.S. and the Kurds.
The relationship between the Kurds and the Iraqi government, however, has a history of bloody confrontations and often brutal crackdowns by the central government, particularly during Hussein's ...
Isolation allowed the Kurds to survive for thousands of years while other cultures faded from history. Lynsey Addario. In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers ...
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