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Turkey's parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK ...
A newly formed parliamentary committee has begun meeting to oversee a peace process with a Kurdish militant group.
The PKK had waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Thursday called on the ...
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...
The ceremony marks a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.
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.
For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will end its insurgency against Turkey. The separatist group’s disbandment ...
Ankara hopes for the PKK's disarmament and the SDF's integration under Damascus, but skepticism and risks remain.
A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to ...
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons.
Erdogan said the recent steps to disarm have united Turkey, and now the parliament will help facilitate the disarmament process. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full ...