The ceremony took place under tight security at a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan - the disarmament process is expected to last all ...

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, ...

Umit Ozdag, head of the opposition Victory Party, also sought to stir nationalist passions, slamming the commission as a bid ...

For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will end its insurgency against Turkey. The separatist group’s disbandment ...

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

A UN report on desertification worldwide estimates that 88 percent of Turkey’s territory is at risk: Rainfall is expected to ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony marking a first step toward a promised disarmament.

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

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

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

Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ...