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

The Kurdish militant group PKK, involved in a prolonged insurgency in Turkey, is starting to disarm as part of a peace ...

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

Less than two months after the Kurdish PKK group decided to disband, ending decades of conflict with Turkey, one of its ...

Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan in early July, the ...

A group of Kurdish fighters are set to lay down their weapons “in the coming few days” in the next stage of a long-awaited ...

Since 2012, there have been several failed attempts to secure a lasting peace between the Turkish government and the PKK. Since late 2024, however, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government ...

The PKK resorted to brutal tactics beginning in the late 1980s and early 90s. According to a report by the European Council on Foreign Relations from 2007, the group, under Ocalan, kidnapped ...

Kurdish leader Ocalan told the PKK to disband, it did: Here’s what to know PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is leading peace efforts to end a Kurdish armed rebellion against Turkiye after four decades.

With Ocalan's arrest, Ankara thought it had decapitated the PKK. But even from his cell he continued to lead, ordering a ceasefire that lasted from 1999 until 2004.

A picture dated 1992 shows Abdullah Ocalan, leader of Turkey's outlawed separatist movement the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), at a training camp in the village of Helweh in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

The PKK, declared an immediate ceasefire following the call and said it was ready to convene a congress, as Ocalan urged, but the necessary security conditions should be established for him to ...