Support from the PKK and Turkiye’s politicians signals a change after decades of conflict, but pitfalls remain.

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

The Kurdish guerrilla group held a symbolic ceremony in which a portion of their weapons was set on fire, marking the start ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

The recent decision by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm and disband has important lessons for any country facing a seemingly intractable insurgency. On May 12, the group stated that ...

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.