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The killing earlier this month of three female Kurdish activists in Paris highlighted the powerful role women play both politically and militarily in the Kurdish struggle. Ozlem Ozen is attending ...

Davutoglu met Massoud Barzani, leader of regional Kurdish administration. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Massoud Barzani, head of the regional Kurdish administration in the north of Iraq, in Davos ...

Independent MP Ahmet Turk about the ongoing dialogue with Kurdish politicians and PKK founder Ocalan. Ahmet Turk, an independent MP from southeastern province of Mardin in Turkey, evaluated the process ...

Breaking Away From Baghdad The mood in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Dohuk -- the three largest cities in Iraqi Kurdistan -- is newly buoyant these days, and with good reason. Iraq's ...

Turkish jets have struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets in a cross-border raid in northern Iraq, Turkish and Kurdish media reported Tuesday, even as Turkey started peace talks with the rebels’ ...

Twelve PKK Kurdish separatist rebels and a soldier have been reported killed in a clash at an outpost in south-eastern Turkey. Turkish sources say the rebels opened fire on the ...

The BDP gets involved on all fronts in an effort to produce peace in Turkey as talks on the Kurdish issue begin with group head Abdullah Öcalan. A hectic diplomatic ...

Turkish intelligence agents have been making the short hop from Istanbul across the Sea of Marmara to the prison Island of Imrali in recent weeks for talks with a jailed ...

Turkey has begun discussing disarmament with Kurdish militants after concluding that it is unlikely to defeat them militarily, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's chief adviser said on Monday. The government has been ...

Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu has said that those who resisted oppression were on Turkey's side. Addressing parliamentarians on Sunday regarding his ministry's budget for 2013, Davutoglu said he expected the ...