Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens ...

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Ocalan, issued an order on Thursday for the group he founded to disband and disarm. His announcement was largely welcomed by Turkish political ...

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has declared a ceasefire in response to the message from its ...

Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week after jailed militant leader Abdullah ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday after its jailed leader, Abdullah ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down ...

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Sunday to crush the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) if it refuses to adhere to ...

Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday.