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A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...
Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and ...
Umit Ozdag, head of the opposition Victory Party, also sought to stir nationalist passions, slamming the commission as a bid ...
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...
After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its ...
Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...
The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...
ISTANBUL, July 10 (Reuters) - The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its ...
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 ...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — A momentous ceasefire declaration on Saturday stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the brunt of the 40-year conflict between ...