Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second time as part of a political effort to end a decades-long conflict.

Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

The appointment of trustees and other attacks on democratic rights by the government show that the renewed negotiations between Ankara and the PKK, which Ankara has been trying to suppress for 40 years,

The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurd DEM political party met Saturday with its former president, jailed since 2016, as it pursues an effort to end decades of conflict between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdish PKK rebel group.

Turkey has offered military assistance and capacity-building support to the new Syrian military to combat “terrorist groups”, during an unprecedented visit by a high-level Syrian delegation led by the new Syrian foreign minister to Ankara on Wednesday.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police in the southern province ... The detentions come amid efforts in Turkey aimed at ending a 40-year conflict between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia and the state, which have fostered hopes for peace.

Ankara views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is deemed a terrorist group by Turkey ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP ... as they try to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Talks between politicians from Turkey ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP ... as they try to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The latest peace effort comes at a time of heightened instability ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead.