In February, the PKK’s jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called on his group to convene a congress to dissolve itself and ...

A Kurdish militant group says it has held a key congress during which historic decisions were taken, but stops short of ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Ankara is determined to rid Turkey of the “scourge of terror,” while the ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that laying down arms is “not enough,” as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s ...

ANKARA: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) held a “successful” meeting this week with a view to disarming and disbanding, a Kurdish news agency close to the armed movement said on Friday.

A Kurdish militant group could soon announce a historic decision to disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey to end a 40-year insurgency, a pro-Kurdish party suggested Friday.

Central to the discussions was the ongoing threat posed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group designated as a ...

While the final details of the congress’s outcomes have not been made public, PKK officials described the decisions as ...

Relations between Turkey and Iraq were often strained over Turkish military incursions into northern Iraq for operations against the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and the establishment ...

Hakan Fidan emphasized that disarmament alone would not be sufficient, stating that all “illegal structures” affiliated with the PKK must cease operations inside Turkey.

Sharaa, the president of Syria, and Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, signed a historic ...

After laying down its arms last February, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is now on the verge of officially announcing its ...