Abdullah Öcalan

Turkey's efforts to end the decades-old Kurdish question have reached a new point as ongoing talks have produced a "draft negotiation frame" on which a substantial reconciliation process would be based for a solution.

Kurds fighting Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobane have received US weapons and medical aid, the Pentagon says.

The move comes against the backdrop of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's declarations over the weekend that Ankara would not allow Washington to supply the Kurds with arms.

President Erdoğan said the best possible opportunities have already been provided for PKK leader Öcalan

Davutoğlu has stressed that all related parties are involved in the solution process, not just Öcalan

The Turkish government has moved to set up a body to better coordinate the Kurdish peace process

Socialist veteran Theodoros Pangalos said on Monday that he plans to press charges against Avgi newspaper for reporting that, as foreign minister, he turned in Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan to the Turkish intelligence service in 1999.