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 ...

“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 ...

A "major paradigm shift" is required to mend fractured ties between Turkey and its Kurdish minority after the PKK's historic disarmament move, jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan said Sunday.

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish leaders and political figures on Monday hailed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) decision to disband and lay down arms, calling it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Kurdish Worker's Party, or PKK, has agreed to stop fighting the Turkish state. What does it mean for PKK members, for Turkish politics and even neighboring countries? After 41 years of armed ...

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with the Turkish state for more than four decades, decided to disband and end its ...

After 41 years of armed insurgency against the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) has announced that it will disband. Representatives of the Turkish government and politicians in ...

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 ...