The Kurdish insurgent group PKK in Turkey says it will lay down its arms and disband after a decades-long fight that killed tens of thousands.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia announced its decision on Monday to dissolve the group, a historic move after ...

Supporters of pro-Kurdish DEM Party wave flags with portraits of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan at a rally ... yet fighting erupted between the government and the PKK in 2015 due in part ...

Jailed PKK leader has urged militants to lay down arms Pro-Kurdish DEM party: Turkey must now push democratic reforms Says PKK seems to back peace call but government reaction key Ocalan has had ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday ... end a decades-long conflict with Turkey's government that has killed tens of thousands ...

Kurdish political parties in the Kurdistan Region have largely welcomed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for disarmament and a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey. In his message ...

Abdullah Ocalan, whom Turkey has held in prison since 1999, called on his fighters to disarm. The PKK, known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, launched its war against the Turkish state in the ...

ANKARA - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold a press conference on Thursday to discuss talks with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ... of a broader government ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a ... It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

The peace process led to some freedoms for Kurds, yet fighting erupted between the government and the PKK in 2015 due in part to fears that the party was trying to create a Kurdish statelet in ...

ANKARA - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after ... Thursday's call from Abdullah Ocalan for the PKK to ...