The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will begin the process of disarming with a ceremony this week at which it will burn ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party said a delegation had met President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to discuss the disarmament process of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and had conveyed its ...

In February, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, urged his group to convene a congress and formally decide to disband and disarm.

A few dozen fighters are planned to destroy their fighters in a symbolic disarmament ceremony. There will be no journalists present and the event will not be broadcast live as part of new security ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An initial group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters is set to disarm in a Sulaimani ...

IRBIL, Iraq — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in ...

The PKK’s decision follows talks between the Turkish government and the group’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in Turkish custody since 1998. Regional dynamics, Turkish domestic politics, and ...

Eight Turkish soldiers have died from methane gas poisoning during a cave search operation in northern Iraq, according to ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons "within days", a spokesman for ...

In February, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, urged his group to convene a congress and formally decide to disband and disarm. Advertisement ...

In February, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, urged his group to convene a congress and formally decide to disband and disarm.

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 ...