Meanwhile, in an address Saturday to ruling party supporters in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the Kurdish-majority southeast, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the disbandment of the ...

Human Rights ... Kurdistan Region last year. “Throughout the year, Türkiye increased its military operations in federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) against the Kurdistan Workers ...

The meeting with Demirtas — jailed in 2016 on terrorism charges that most observers, including the European Court of Human Rights ... head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.