The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

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 conflict.

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.

Is new life being breathed into the long-stalled Kurdish peace process in Turkey

Following the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the delegation will meet with representatives of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi).

Erdoğan pledged to achieve a “terror-free Turkey” through peaceful means if possible, but with force if necessary — an allusion to a proposal from ultranationalists that the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan be released in exchange for the the ...

The appointment of trustees and other attacks on democratic rights by the government show that the renewed negotiations between Ankara and the PKK, which Ankara has been trying to suppress for 40 years,

The country is going through a new stage in the fight against the PKK with the 'terror-free Türkiye initiative' proposed by a government

In a pivotal moment for the new initiative to convince the PKK terrorist group to lay down arms, the PKK-linked Peoples' Equality and Democracy

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's key nationalist ally urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to explicitly announce the group's disbandment after his next expected meeting with the country's pro-Kurdish political party.

On the topic of resolving the Kurdish issue, Ramanlı expressed support for steps toward social peace, including disarmament. “Arms and violence have never been the way for Kurds to seek their rights. After 40 years, it’s clear this approach has only caused harm,” he said.

The Kurds have a long history with distinct cultural and ethnic identities but have never had an independent nation. After World War I, Kurdish diplomat Mehmet Sherif Pasha proposed the creation of a Kurdistan.