Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

This is the closest Turkey and the insurgents have come to peace since the PKK took up arms to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

The government’s intent is more or less clear, but the Kurdish movement, highlighting its various possible outcomes, is ...

The ceremonial laying down of arms by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK -- including 15 women — comes months ...

On February 27, 2025, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan called on the group to disarm and ...

It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its arms and disband, but it is not clear when this process will begin and how ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday praised the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers ...

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), appeared in a rare online video on Wednesday to say the group's armed struggle against Turkey has ended, and he called ...