For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a “new page in history” has turned, after the Kurdish PKK militant group that has ...

Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and ...

The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.

What is the PKK? The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is embarking on a hazardous path to ensure the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group implements its decision to disband after 40 years of conflict, facing ...

Turkey's PKK Fighters in Iraq and Syria Revive Kurdish Cause. PKK fighters have become vital to the international community’s battle against the powerful Islamist insurgency in Iraq and Syria.

Turkey has yet to make a detailed response to the PKK’s ceasefire announcement. “We do not trust them, they said the same things before, nothing has changed. Twelve years ago they said peace ...