Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan still holds great sway among Kurds across the region — Delil SOULEIMAN Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi ...

A ceasefire has been established after three weeks of fighting. The Kurds have secured major gains in local autonomy and national rights, while the Syrian president claims to have restored national ...

The Kurdish guerrilla group held a symbolic ceremony in which a portion of their weapons was set on fire, marking the start of their disarmament process. This gesture was welcomed by the Turkish ...

The PKK says it wants to pursue a democratic struggle to defend the rights of the Kurdish minority. But "the guerrilla is also the prototype of free life, the prototype of free humans, the prototype ...

Abdullah Ocalan, seen here in 1993, set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the late 1970s — JOSEPH BARRAK Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of Kurdish militant group the PKK, ...

IRBIL, Iraq — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the first ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday. As ...

(Adds quotes) ANKARA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which on Monday announced its dissolution and the end of its insurgency against Turkey, is not the first group to end a decades-long armed campaign. The Barron's ...