Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that a disarmament call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, started a new phase in the efforts for a "terror-free Turkey".

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party has called on his group to disarm and disband in a bid to end 40 years of fighting with the Turkish state.

Turkey’s ramped-up exports come as avian flu has killed more than 140 million egg-laying birds in the United States since 2022, and 17 million alone in November and December. Fewer birds means fewer eggs — and higher prices.

Israel is actively pressuring the United States to maintain Russian military bases in Syria. This request is part of a larger strategy to keep Syria weak and prevent Turkey from increasing its influence in the region.

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, in a landmark call, asked the group to disband. Read more at straitstimes.com.

After decades of fighting, the Kurdish group’s imprisoned leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms.

As the ongoing bird influenza continues to devastate the nation’s egg production, Turkey plans to export eggs into the U.S. through July in a preliminary agreement reached between the two nations.

The restructuring of the international order has provided the powers of the second echelon of world politics with a lot of new opportunities. Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai Club and research supervisor of the Central Research Institute of Higher School of