The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) does not seek an amnesty from Ankara but demands constitutional changes toward political ...

Escalating tensions between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Damascus-aligned forces in northern Syria risk ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency. The members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

The PKK announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades of hostilities. "As of yesterday, the 47-year scourge of terrorism has entered the process of ending, ...

Ankara hopes for the PKK's disarmament and the SDF's integration under Damascus, but skepticism and risks remain.

ANKARA, Turkey — 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 ...

Turkey considers the YPG an offshoot of the PKK. There is speculation that the SDF fighters could be integrated into Syria's new national army. Any foreigners in the SDF's ranks should return home.

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 ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The PKK Kurdish militant group announced Monday that it will disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of armed conflict.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country.

“Turkey’s Kurds have expectations, the Turks are resistant, the process is vulnerable to international influences and then there are the PKK’s internal dynamics.” ...