When Abdullah Ocalan said his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should lay down its arms and disband after more than four decades of conflict with the Turkish state and tens of thousands of ...

The PKK's decision could boost NATO member Turkey's political and economic stability and encourage moves to ease tensions in neighbouring Iraq and also in Syria, where Kurdish forces are allied ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that laying down arms is “not enough,” as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) is expected to announce a ...

Sedat Suna/Getty Images The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced on Friday that it had held a long-awaited congress in response to a call by its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, a move ...

All activities under the PKK name have been concluded The Extraordinary 12th Congress evaluated that the PKK’s struggle has dismantled the policies of denial and annihilation imposed on our people, ...

On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in which he called on the group to lay down its arms, it has announced it will disband. The PKK ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, whose leader Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, made the decision to disband in a move towards ending its conflict with Turkey. The Kurdish militant ...

“PKK may declare at any moment that the congress has convened. We are waiting for this historic step and decision with great seriousness,” she said during a press briefing today at the party's ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish politicians on Friday welcomed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) landmark congress, expressing hope for a “new era” and turning a “new page” with ...

Fighting between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish military has ceased in northern Iraq following the Kurdish armed group’s decision to end its armed struggle, security sources ...

The PKK's decision could boost NATO member Turkey's political and economic stability and encourage moves to ease tensions in neighbouring Iraq and also in Syria, where Kurdish forces are allied ...

Turkey says it is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a senior official has said, following the militant Kurdish ...