PKK leader Öcalan backs peace efforts after DEM Party visit, praises symbolic disarmament. Turkish parliament forms 51-member ...

But they must not allow Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to use peace as a smokescreen for repression. Having ruled ...

The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the ...

Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Tuesday condemned a call ...

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

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, ...

President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...

Aging Out of War: The Transformation of a Militant Group and Erdoğan’s Calculus. To understand this transformation, it is useful to revisit the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s foundational role.In the ...

ISTANBUL, July 10 (Reuters) - The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, held a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq. It was the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament, as part of a peace process.