The Turkish government declared the “terror-free Türkiye” initiative to solve the most prolonged crisis in the history of the ...

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

Kurdish militants destroy weapons Hopes for economic revival Turkey’s southeast gains Turkey is hoping the apparent end to a four decades-long conflict with a Kurdish separatist group will ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Perhaps we witnessed the most concrete and tangible steps ever taken toward peace; top-down and bottom-up. Despite its weight ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed start of a disarmament process by militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a "painful chapter" in Turkey's troubled history.

Fragmentation and complex regional interests have always made Kurdish issues highly sensitive in the Middle East. But a ...

The PKK stated that it would continue its struggle through legal means under the name “Group for Peace and Democratic Society ...

A small faction of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party began laying down its arms in a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq, ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...