Since the 1980s, Kurdish movements have included both peaceful political activities for basic civil rights for Kurds in Turkey as well as armed rebellion and guerrilla warfare, including military attacks aimed mainly at Turkish military bases, demanding first a separate Kurdish state and later self-determination for the Kurds. [15]

1 day ago · Turkey’s military has kept up deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K. in the two weeks since the movement’s founder called on his followers to ...

Mar 7, 2025 · Turkey announced its own safe zone in areas it had taken from Kurdish forces in an offensive and hopes to repatriate Syrian refugees in Turkey to the area, but human rights groups have said...

Mar 5, 2025 · On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan — observed by most of Turkey’s Sunni population — the imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, made a ...

Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the current PKK–Turkey conflict.

Feb 28, 2025 · ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the banned militant group.

Mar 2, 2025 · Pro-Kurdish politicians have been targeted by a wave of arrests and jail sentences in recent years in Turkey. Some 40,000 people have died since the PKK's insurgency began.

Feb 27, 2025 · For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., a militant group that says it seeks greater rights for the country’s...

Feb 10, 2025 · With between 5,000 and 10,000 armed fighters, the PKK directed attacks against government property, government officials, Turks living in the Kurdish regions, Kurds accused of collaborating with the government, foreigners, and Turkish diplomatic missions abroad.

The Survival of Kurdish Identity in Turkey. By Soliman Aboutaam. Overview. The Kurds make up the world’s largest stateless population, with more than 30 million living in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey; they make up a fifth of Turkey’s population.

Feb 26, 2025 · Turkey considers the largest component in the SDF - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish rights in Turkey for ...

4 days ago · Modern Turkish history is riddled with Kurdish uprisings. The PKK represents the latest and longest-lasting iteration of this challenge, and many obstacles will have to be navigated before the PKK can go down in history as the first Kurdish armed movement to end at the behest of its founding leader.

Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic [36] ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in West Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. [37]

Mar 1, 2025 · A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the brunt of the 40-year conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Kurds make up almost a fifth of Turkey’s 90 million population. The conflict left tens of thousands of people dead and contributed to the economic marginalization of Turkey’s...

Apr 23, 2024 · Since the 1980s, Turkey has been engaged in a conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, an insurgent group fighting for greater Kurdish rights. The fighting, which has occurred primarily in...

Jan 12, 2025 · Kurdish politics holds the transformative potential to reshape both Türkiye and the Middle East, echoing the era of the Ottoman Empire's collapse and the post-Ottoman state-building—a history Türkiye now revisits amidst ongoing regional and global shifts.

The persecution of Kurds is the ethnic and political persecution which is inflicted upon Kurds by the governments of Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. The newly declared Turkish Republic leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk repudiated the Treaty of Sèvres which proposed a referendum be conducted in the Kurdish homeland.

Jan 21, 2025 · Turkey’s founding ideology continues to erase Kurdish identity through systemic racism. TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Nov 27, 2024 · The Kurds in Turkey. Ethnic Kurds live in areas divided among Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, as well as in diaspora communities worldwide. The largest Kurdish community lives in Turkey, with estimates ranging from 12 to 20 million people, representing 14% to 23% of …