After more than a four-decade insurgency carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against Turkey, the US-designated terror group, says it has abandoned its armed struggle against Ankara.

Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, is ending its war against the Turkish state.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency reported.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Marking the occasion of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, Turkey’s nationalist politicians visited a ...

Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK, which has waged a 40-year insurgency against Turkey, has announced it is laying down its arms and disbanding. The move followed a call in February by the group's jailed ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced on Thursday that two of its members were killed by the ...

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Stalinoid party long strong in the fight for Kurdish rights in Turkey and in Syria) has ...

Ankara is in talks with regional authorities on the PKK and its affiliates dissolving themselves, with mechanisms ready to ...

It should be remembered that there are approximately 40 million Kurds in the Middle East, spread across various countries ...

Responding to the statement, Ömer Çelik, spokesperson for the ruling AK Party, reaffirmed the government’s position that all ...

The remarks by Duran Kalkan, a member of the PKK Executive Committee, came days after Turkey’s FM Hakan Fidan publicly called ...