U.S. support for the PYD/PKK terrorist group continues to raise tensions in Turkish-American relations, even while remarks from U.S. officials effectively admit what U.S. leaders avoid saying: that ...

Russia is providing air support for the PYD, the Syrian affiliate of the terrorist PKK organization, to allow the PYD to establish control over all territory lying between the northern Syrian towns of ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s exceptionally harsh comments directed at the United States on February 10 for its links with the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have brought to ...

Syrian Kurds have emerged as the one the most effective group in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terror in Syria. Their fighters have shown an extraordinary ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Osman Ocalan, the brother of the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) -- and a onetime head of the group -- believes that the chaos in Syria favors the Kurds ...

The Democratic Union Party (PYD) is a Syrian Kurdish political party that was founded in 2003. It is the leading Kurdish party in Syria and has close ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a ...

The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015. (Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. Despite years of media shorthand suggesting otherwise, “the Kurds” are not a monolith – not between ...

Over the past two years, the Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat (Democratic Union Party, PYD) – a Syrian Kurdish political party that stems from the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK) ...

The 4-H Study of PYD: Reconnection and Replication aims to extend and replicate the original 4-H Study of PYD. Conducted between 2002 and 2012, the original study found that when PYD was promoted by ...