The meeting is part of efforts to draw a roadmap for the new peace process that could lead to resolving long-standing tensions in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. A Path Toward Peace This marks the ...

SUNDAY October 9 marked the 18th anniversary of the expulsion of Abdullah Ocalan from Syria where he had been for the best part of 20 years. In 1998 Turkey was sabre rattling and openly threatening ...

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

Peoria continues to make major strides in its economic development, which is a key priority for the city’s management and current mayoral administration. The city’s investment in the north ...

Turkey was gripped by uncertainty Wednesday ahead of an imminent statement by jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose impact is impossible ...

D.C., in one of the cases temporarily blocked the removal of three transgender women from a women's prison. NPR obtained a copy of the new clothing policy, dated Feb. 3, that was shared with ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...

DIAZ: So his newly issued policy said trans women in federal prison have to hand over all of their female clothing and other items if they had them. It was the first clear evidence of how the ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is poised to issue a "historic call" seeking a lasting solution to the longstanding Kurdish issue in Turkey. The anticipated ...

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey ... for Ocalan to call on the PKK to disarm. Bahceli said at the time there was no need for a new peace process, saying that the PKK should surrender unconditionally to ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party on Tuesday said that jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan is expected to make a ...