Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has killed an estimated 40,000 people.

The jailed leader of the PKK called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, ...

Others claimed that the president has consolidated autocracy so much that he could not be defeated at the ballot box,” ...

For Sharaa, the "first option is to resolve this via diplomacy and talks", said Gonul Tol, head of the Turkish studies programme at the Washington-based Middle East Institute. But at some point ...

What the PKK itself gains out of this deal is yet to be seen. Gonul Tol, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, said that Erdogan has previously failed to make peace with ...