Turkey's push for PKK disarmament stems from political survival needs, economic strain, and countering Iran's influence, says ...

Less than two months after the Kurdish PKK group decided to disband, ending decades of conflict with Turkey, one of its ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Wednesday called the ...

A senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party says elements within the Turkish government are trying to sabotage a historic ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

A group of Kurdish fighters are set to lay down their weapons “in the coming few days” in the next stage of a long-awaited ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) may soon begin disarming, marking a crucial step towards peace. This decision follows a ...

Commentary and archival information about Kurdistan Workers' Party from The New York Times. ... Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes.

Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party display flags with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Istanbul in March 2024.

Cemil Bayik, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), speaks near the Iraq-Turkey border on October 19, 2013. Bayik has promised to step up the PKK's fight against Turkey.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Kurdish regional government called on the Kurdistan Worker's Party to "withdraw" from Iraq's Kurdish territory Saturday to prevent civilian deaths amid a campaign of ...

Iraq's Kurdish regional government called on the Kurdish Worker's Party to "withdraw" from Iraq's Kurdish territory Saturday to prevent civilian deaths amid a campaign of Turkish airstrikes ...