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Kurds await Türkiye's next move

Fares Garabet 22 May 2025
PKK guerrillas scan for firing positions as they conduct military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, 18 November 2006. DAVID FURST / AFP

What next after historic PKK decision to disband?

Türkiye hailed the move to dissolve what it deems a terrorist group that claimed over 40,000 lives, but vows the fight would continue should the process collapse

Omer Onhon 11 May 2025
Kurdistan Workers' Party fighters in the Iraqi city of Dohuk on May 14, 2013. AFP

In Iraqi Kurdistan, shifting allegiances make for flimsy alliances

Amid attempts to bring Tehran and Baghdad closer to the KDP, relations shift and sway as involved players look for their interests. Add Turkey into the mix, and things get even more complicated.

Shelly Kittleson 09 September 2024
After nine Turkish soldiers were killed by the PKK in Iraq, there is a sombre and angry mood in Ankara. There are major political implications into local elections and over relations with the US. Shutterstock

PKK attacks on Turkey have major implications at home and abroad

After nine Turkish soldiers were killed by the PKK in Iraq, there is a sombre and angry mood in Ankara. There are major political implications into local elections and over relations with the US.

Omer Onhon 16 January 2024
A man walks close to a fire raging at a facility in al-Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria close to the Turkish border on October 5, 2023. AFP

Turkey warns neighbours and NATO partner after Ankara attack

Increased cross-border operations have followed an attack claimed by the PKK in Ankara as frustration grows over the seeming unwillingness of allies to admit links and act accordingly

Shelly Kittleson 05 October 2023
An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) walks past a graffiti-covered wall as he inspects damage at the party headquarters following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye. AFP

Iraqi Kurdistan treads carefully as neighbouring countries ramp up attacks on 'terrorists'

An attack on an airport, bombings in the mountains, and Iran's threat of a ground invasion have led the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to tread carefully between its neighbours. Al Majalla explains.

Shelly Kittleson 25 September 2023
A visitor at the Mahkmour refugees camp in Arbil, northern Iraq, look at photographs on October 29, 2009 of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerillas killed during fighting at a memorial center built in their honour. AFP

Pipelines and PKK: Iraq and Turkey step up cooperation

Iraq and Turkey share an extremely important strategic relationship, but multiple unresolved issues continue to create friction between the two

Shelly Kittleson 30 May 2023
A picture of Abdullah Ocalan in the northern Syrian city of  Al-Hasakah. Getty Images

The story behind Abdullah Öcalan’s high-profile exit from Syria

After decades shrouded in mystery, Al Majalla reveals a watershed moment in the history of relations between Ankara and Damascus

Ibrahim Hamidi 29 March 2023
Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) Turkish MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, who was expelled from the parliament earlier this month, holds a press conference on March 31, 2021 at the party's headquarters in the Turkish capital, Ankara. (Getty)

Turkey Continues to Pressure Pro-Kurdish Party

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has sent back to the prosecutor, an indictment calling for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to be banned. It ruled that the indictment had procedural…

Jiwan Soz 09 April 2021
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