Following the 12th congress held between May 5–7, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and the EU, announced its imminent disarmament ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A militant Kurdish group announced on Friday that it had made “historic” decisions during its long-awaited congress earlier this week. The group, however, stopped short of saying ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party).

STORY: Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, burned their weapons on Friday. The event signified the beginning of a disarmament process meant to end a bloody, four-decade insurgency ...

As the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) prepares to hold a symbolic disarmament ceremony in the coming days, the group’s imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan has released a video message in what was his ...

Forces of the regional Kurdish administration secure the area of the Jasana Cave ahead of a symbolic disarmament ceremony by the separatist PKK group as part of the peace process with Turkey, in ...