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Children who fled ongoing battles between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces in Syria's Aleppo province sit at a desk in the yard of a school in Hasakeh, where they and others took refuge

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Syria monitor: 101 killed in battles between pro-Turkey, Kurdish forces

More than 100 combatants were killed over the last two days in northern Syria in fighting between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces, a...

AFPJanuary 5, 2025

Abdullah Ocalan, seen here in 1993, set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the late 1970s

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Ocalan: PKK chief held in solitary on Turkish prison island

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of Kurdish militant group the PKK, is hailed by many Kurds as an icon, but within wider Turkish society...

AFPDecember 31, 2024

Supporters of Abdullah Ocalan rallied in Cologne, Germany, in February 2024 to mark the 25th anniversary of his arrest

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Jailed PKK leader says ‘ready’ to support Turkey peace drive

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is “ready to make a call” to back a new initiative by the...

AFPDecember 29, 2024

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul

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Turkey’s pro-Kurd party meets jailed PKK leader

A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Saturday visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island...

AFPDecember 28, 2024

Syrian Kurds celebrated the fall of Damascus to Islamist-led rebels but are fearful for their hard-won autonomy and gains like Kurdish-medium education.

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Syria Kurds warm up to new leaders but fear for hard-won gains

Kurdish authorities have made overtures to Islamist-led rebels who seized power in Syria last week, but the long-oppressed community fears it could lose hard-won...

AFPDecember 13, 2024

Syrians wave opposition flags, one with the portrait of late rebel fighter Abdel-Basset al-Sarout in Arbil, in the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, after rebels captured the Syrian capital

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‘The revolution has won’: Syrians in Iraqi Kurdistan celebrate Assad’s fall

Brandishing the flag of the opposition, dozens of Syrian refugees in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Sunday celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad, dubbing the...

AFPDecember 8, 2024

Under threat? Syrian Kurds demonstrate in the northeastern city of Qamishli

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Turkey could benefit from rebel offensive in Syria: experts

Turkey could be one of the big winners from the new Syria crisis, giving it a chance to tackle its Syrian refugee problem and...

AFPDecember 2, 2024

Mardin mayor Ahmet Turk (C) was one of three officials removed by the interior ministry

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Turkey sacks 3 pro-Kurdish party mayors over alleged ‘terror’ ties

Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged “terrorism” charges, despite Ankara’s apparent desire to seek a rapprochement with the...

AFPNovember 4, 2024