Beril Eski

5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Beril Eski |Mary Ilyushina |Serhiy Morgunov

Ukraine, Russia hold brief talks, agree on prisoner exchange but little else (washingtonpost.com) Ukraine, Russia hold brief talks, agree on prisoner exchange but little else By Beril Eski; Mary Ilyushina; Serhiy Morgunov 2025060210372000 ISTANBUL — Russia and Ukraine met for a brief second round of direct talks in Istanbul on Monday, agreeing to swap dead and captured soldiers, but otherwise there was no significant progress toward ending the grueling war or even agreeing to a ceasefire....

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Victoria Craw |Beril Eski |Annabelle Timsit

Kurdish militant group PKK says it will end armed struggle against Turkey (washingtonpost.com) Kurdish militant group PKK says it will end armed struggle against Turkey By Victoria Craw; Beril Eski; Annabelle Timsit 2025051208351700 The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, said Monday that it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, raising the prospect of an end to the decades-long insurgency the group has fought.

Feb 27, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Beril Eski

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement he founded to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. The comments by Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were read at a news conference in Istanbul by Kurdish lawmakers and leaders who met with Ocalan on Thursday.

Feb 27, 2025 | stripes.com | Kareem Fahim |Beril Eski

Kurdish women, one waving a flag of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, applaud while lining the road, as the convoy carrying the body of U.S. citizen Keith Broomfield, killed in fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria, is driven by through Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, June 11, 2015. Broomfield was likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside Kurds against the Islamic State group.

Dec 21, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Louisa Loveluck |Susannah George |Mohamad El Chamaa |Beril Eski

The Syrian regime's collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed - the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment. 22 minISTANBUL - Rebels were barreling toward the Syrian capital, but the president's men were in no mood for the battle. For more than a week they had watched city after town fall to the rebellion. By Saturday, the insurgents were threatening Homs, a strategic fire wall of Bashar al-Assad's government.