Abdullah Öcalan

The Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have renamed the Menagh air base in northern Syria after the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, British newspaper The Times reported on Feb. 18. 

Ankara Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers detained 15 people in two separate incidents early Feb. 15 as a dispute erupted between the security personnel of an Ankara University campus and a group.

The country's intelligence service could begin meetings with Abdullah Öcalan of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), but the government should not accept the jailed leader as a counterpart in steps to revive the stalled "resolution" process aiming to end Turkey's three-decade long PKK conflict, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

A Turkish court has acquitted an academic who faced seven years in jail for "terror propaganda" over an exam question about two writings by Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

An academic at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science faces seven years in jail for "terror propaganda" over an exam question asking students to compare two writings by Abdullah Öcalan the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Turkey's insistence on the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) not getting an invitation to participate in the Geneva peace talks has made an already messy situation even messier. Yet it is understandable.

A Feb. 28, 2015 agreement between ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) officials, dubbed the "Dolmabahçe Agreement," was not the product of a "negotiation," Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an has claimed, adding that the intelligence services "would meet even the devil" if needed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said on Jan. 29 that he would not meet with Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Leyla Zana unless she takes her oath in parliament.

The environment for human rights in Turkey deteriorated in 2015 with the breakdown of the Kurdish peace process, a sharp escalation of violence in the country's southeast and a crackdown on media and political opponents of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Jan. 27.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he will meet Leyla Zana, a deputy from the Kurdish-problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).  

Speaking to reporters in Istanbul on Jan. 22 over Zana's request to meet with the president, Erdo?an said the HDP A?r? deputy made the request.