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.

Over 100 depopulated villages in Sidakan district could be revived if a PKK-Türkiye ceasefire is reached, local officials say ...

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.

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

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.

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 deaths, ...

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 ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of ...

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

While this gesture of disarmament appeared to mark a historic turning point—a shift from armed resistance to peaceful, ...