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The Prisoner Who Could End Turkey’s Longest Conflict
After 26 years in prison, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has emerged as a central figure in Turkey’s...
The End of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Struggle: A Victory for Erdoğan’s Neo-Ottomanism?
This article will discuss the political context and strategic implications of the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK) as a development that reconstructs...
PKK to Withdraw from Turkey in Major Disarmament Step
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its militants from Turkey as part of a disarmament process coordinated with...
The Echoes of the Good Friday Agreement: The Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process
The recent announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm could mark the closing salvo of its four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state....
Kurdish Disarmament Reshapes Dynamics in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran—but Uncertainty Remains
After more than forty years of armed struggle, a Kurdish-linked group, the PKK, in northern Iraq has begun disarming—a dramatic gesture that signals a...
Lessons from Turkey’s PKK and Balochistan’s Crossroads
Four decades of relentless conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey have culminated in an unexpected yet historic declaration: the PKK, a...
PKK Dissolution and Turkey’s Kurdish Question
The long and bloody saga of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has seemingly reached a pivotal juncture with the organization's long-anticipated announcement of its...
Terrorism’s Deadly Dance: The Political Dynamics Behind the PKK’s Use of Violence
Inside the twisted corner of our interconnected world, where the lines between friend and foe blur, terrorism emerges as a specter that attracts the...
Selahattin Demirtas: We are not the PKK’s political wing
Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas says that the Kurdish-focused People's Democratic Party (HDP) has no relations of any kind with the PKK.
Undoubtedly, political campaign is...
Turkey’s Crippled Counterterrorist Capacity: How Domestic Purges Represent an International Threat to Europe’s Security
T urkey has been suffering from terrorism for a long time, losing over 40,000 people in the last 40 years. When the Syrian...