Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Stalinoid party long strong in the fight for Kurdish rights in Turkey and in Syria) has ...

Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent comparison, leaving peacemakers to forge a new path.

The dissolution was therefore ratified at an extraordinary congress on May 12, held in two different locations (one can never be too careful...). This is the culmination of a 25-year quest for a ...

Without these, Öcalan’s latest call for the dissolution and disarmament of the PKK, along with the abandonment of core Kurdish political demands, risks being remembered not as a step toward ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) In a development that caught many observers off guard, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has declared its formal dissolution, bringing an apparent end to its decades-long ...

On 12 May, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced its dissolution and the end of its more than 40-year armed struggle against Turkey. This is a historic decision. The Kurdish issue has ...

The PKK has declared its dissolution, ending a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state — Delil SOULEIMAN The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for ...

Just as the founding of the PKK had a significant impact on all levels in the region, its dissolution will similarly have a major effect on political, military, economic, and social developments ...