The State of the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict
The benefits of rapprochement between the Turkish government and Kurdish militants are clear, but hopes for an easing of tensions rest on...
The benefits of rapprochement between the Turkish government and Kurdish militants are clear, but hopes for an easing of tensions rest on...
The executive's interference with the judiciary deepened. Binding Constitutional Court rulings were ignored despite jurisprudence, and European Court of...
A member of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), a youth division of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), holds a rocket...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led parliamentary coalition government exert strong control over the media, courts,...
The International Crisis Group has assembled a database of fatalities caused by this conflict and analysed data on violent incidents...
Despite a history marked by marginalization and persecution, many Kurds hold onto hope of achieving their people's century-old quest for independence.
The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced its decision to...
A century-long struggle to preserve the Kurdish identity in the face of a repressive and nationalist Turkish regime.
On May 12, 2025, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced its intention to disarm and dissolve, potentially ending its four-decades-long insurgency against...
Erdoğan is arguably negotiating with the Kurds mainly as a means of securing Kurdish parliamentarians' votes to extend his rule as president...