Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Strategic Research Center warns that while most Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters are likely to disarm if a peace ...

The PKK leader’s calls for the group to disarm and dissolve is a step towards ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish ...

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Turkey's defense ministry says security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week. The announcement on Thursday came after the group’s imprisoned leader urged its dissolution and the ...

The militants’ ceasefire announcement could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has urged his followers to lay down ...

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid ...