by Dalshad Abdullah | Jun 26, 2015 | Middle East
Mount Qandil (Iraqi Kurdistan), Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is responsible for “terminating” peace process between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a senior party official told Asharq Al-Awsat on Thursday. Speaking to Asharq...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 6, 2015 | World
Diyarbakir, Reuters—Turkish Kurds gathered on Saturday to mourn and protest at the scene of bomb blasts that killed two people and wounded more than 200 at an election rally, with many voicing anger at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of Sunday’s...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 21, 2015 | World
Diyarbakir, Turkey, Reuters—Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan called on Saturday for his militant group to hold a congress on ending a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state but stopped short of declaring an immediate halt to its armed struggle....
by Thair Abbas | Mar 1, 2015 | Middle East
Beirut and Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish armed separatist movement the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on Saturday called on members of the PKK to take an “historic” decision and end a decades-long armed insurgency...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 28, 2015 | World
Ankara, AP—Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his fighters to lay down arms as part of a peace process to end a 30-year insurgency, Turkey’s main Kurdish party said Saturday. Ocalan is asking his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK,...
