An Iraqi Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing the image of Abdullah Ocalan, founder of the PKK, during a gathering at Freedom Park in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq on Feb. 27, 2025. (Credit: Shwan Mohammad/AFP)
A supreme leader who signed the end of the guerrilla war in February, a movement that destroyed its weapons in July and then packed up and withdrew from the territory.At first glance, the skies appear clear over Ankara. The resolution of the “Kurdish question,” which hinges on the demilitarization of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is moving in a direction long hoped for by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey. On the ground report 'Without an agreement, there will be war': The obscured future of Syrian Kurdistan It reached a new milestone on Sunday, Oct. 26, when Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the organization classified as terrorist by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union, ordered all its fighters to withdraw from southeastern Turkey in order to “lay the foundations for a free, democratic, and fraternal life.” Armed PKK...
A supreme leader who signed the end of the guerrilla war in February, a movement that destroyed its weapons in July and then packed up and withdrew from the territory.At first glance, the skies appear clear over Ankara. The resolution of the “Kurdish question,” which hinges on the demilitarization of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is moving in a direction long hoped for by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey. On the ground report 'Without an agreement, there will be war': The obscured future of Syrian Kurdistan It reached a new milestone on Sunday, Oct. 26, when Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the organization classified as terrorist by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union, ordered all its fighters to withdraw from southeastern Turkey in order to “lay the foundations for a free, democratic, and fraternal life.”...
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