The Kurdistan Region has played a constructive role in many critical issues, and it has adhered to international law in doing so,” Ann Linde said.

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants are stoking distrust among Kurds.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is remaking Turkey’s opposition – not by defeating it outright, but by replacing it. His latest strategy appears to sideline the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) ...

This is not exclusive to Kurds but all other nations in the Middle East. There is a need for permanent peace in the Middle East… We have named this Newroz the Newroz of peace,” Aysegul Dogan ...

Across the Middle East, Kurds are celebrating Nowruz, a traditional holiday marking the arrival of spring and the new year, which has reached new heights of public celebration this year.

The cities of Kawaguchi and Warabi in southern Saitama Prefecture are home to many Kurds, an ethnic minority in the Middle East with a large number in Turkey. Warabi's particular concentration of ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

Syria was in danger of becoming a Turkish protectorate, explained Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister. Syria’s leaders ...

However, the recent call will have far-reaching consequences in the Middle East, as Öcalan's renunciation of his previous resolutions will shape the political solutions sought between the Kurds ...

The law passed, which was the final step in creating this new, primarily Kurdish province, which is an important symbol for Kurds. This also means that Iraq will now have 19 provinces in total.