By Ece Toksabay and Daren Butler ISTANBUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A deal under which Kurdish forces abandoned long-held territory in Syria to the Syrian government could pave the way for Turkey to advance ...

Numan Kurtulmuş, the speaker of Parliament, met for nearly three hours on Wednesday with deputy group leaders coordinating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jailed Kurdish militant leader Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish DEM Party says (Reuters) -The militant Kurdistan ...

A new comprehensive agreement, which stabilizes a fragile cease-fire and ends weeks of clashes in northern Syria, will see the YPG’s gradual ...

Men watch the announcement of PKK's abandonment of armed struggle on a television screen inside a traditional Turkish tea house, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Ilyas Akengin/AFP via Getty Images Turkey’s ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A militant Kurdish group announced on Friday that it had made “historic” decisions during its long-awaited congress earlier this week. The group, however, stopped short of saying ...

“The PKK has fulfilled its historic mission” – with these words, and a final communique with the weight of a history-making turn, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party announced on Monday the dissolution of ...

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 hostilities.

President Tayyip Erdogan said an agreement between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeast had helped relieve pressure on a peace process between ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party).

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A militant Kurdish group announced on Friday that it had made "historic" decisions during its long-awaited congress earlier this week. The group, however, stopped short of saying ...