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.

(CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end ...

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Wednesday again urged his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is set to take place as a ...

A first group of PKK militants burnt their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq — Shwan MOHAMMED Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on ...

STORY: Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, burned their weapons on Friday. The event signified the beginning of a disarmament process meant to end a bloody, four-decade insurgency ...

The Kurdish group PKK announced on Monday that it will fully disarm and disband, ending its decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, according to the Firat News Agency, an outlet linked ...

A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a ...

June 26, 2025: On May 12th, the Kurdistan Workers Party/PKK disbanded. PKK leaders deliberated during their recent 12th Congress and decided to disarm and disband. The PKK began an armed campaign ...

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.