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Cemil Bayik, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s second-in-command. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Erdoğan “undermined” peace with Kurds: PKK leader

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...

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Relatives of one of the victims of the bombings mourn on June 6, 2015, during his funeral in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic)

Kurds mourn, protest after bombing at Turkish election rally

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...

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A Turkish Kurdish woman with a child sits next to a Kurdistan Workers’ Party flag with a picture of the imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Silopi, Turkey, on March 2, 2015. (Reuters/Kadir Baris)

Kurdish militant leader urges congress on peace with Turkey

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....

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In this photo provided by the Turkish prime minister’s press office, Pro-Kurdish legislator Sırrı Süreyya Önder, (R), and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan speak after a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Prime Minister’s Press Office)

PKK leader calls on movement to take “historic” decision and end armed conflict with Turkey

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...

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Members of the Kurdish community wave flags and banners of convicted Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration calling for his release in Strasbourg, France, on February 14, 2015. (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)

Jailed Kurdish leader calls on PKK to lay down arms

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,...