A Turkish parliamentary committee has agreed to meet with Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan at his prison island.

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 ...

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.

The Kurdish political scene in the Middle East is no longer synonymous solely with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); today, ...

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.

FILE - A group of armed Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) enter northern Iraq in the Heror area, northeast of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, May 14 ...

The Kurdish militant PKK said Monday its forces had withdrawn from a key border area in northern Iraq in a move aimed at ...

The move follows the group's announcement in late October that it had withdrawn all remaining units from within Turkey’s ...

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 ...

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 ...