It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its arms and disband, but it is not clear when this process will begin and how ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has announced the end of the group’s armed ...

PKK leader Öcalan backs peace efforts after DEM Party visit, praises symbolic disarmament. Turkish parliament forms 51-member ...

Erdogan hails symbolic destruction of arms as step toward 'terror-free Turkey'; top PKK fighter says jailed leader Abdullah ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said he hopes a commission ...

PKK disbands after decades of guerrilla warfare, following calls for peace and democratic process by founder Abdullah Ocalan.

This is all you need to know about why Ocalan and the PKK have given up their armed struggle. Who is Abdullah Ocalan? Ocalan was born to a poor Kurdish farming family on April 4, 1948, in Omerli ...

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. In a video message on ...

Show more Show less Abdullah Ocalan, pictured on the flag, founded the PKK in the late 1970s with the Kurdish militant group taking up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 Most of the PKK's ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony marking a first step toward a promised disarmament.

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

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), appeared in a rare online video on Wednesday to say the group's armed struggle against Turkey has ended, and he called ...