The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, comes against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, including the reconfiguration of power in neighboring Syria after ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A senior Turkish official on Friday called for the dissolution of affiliates in Iraq and Syria of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, a day after the PKK’s imprisoned leader ...

The PKK's executive committee said a "new historic process is beginning in Kurdistan and the Middle East with the call in question". However, it insisted that before heeding his call to dissolve ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) clarified on Sunday that the unilateral ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

(Reuters) -The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) TURK: (Speaking Kurdish). ARRAF: "All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK dissolve itself." That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who backed the peace process initiated by a close nationalist ally, warned Turkey would pursue anti-PKK fight unless the group kept their pledge to disband.

In a message read out by DEM Party members in İstanbul, the imprisoned PKK leader has called on the group to end its four-decade armed insurgency against Turkey and dissolve itself. Abdullah Öcalan, ...

(Reuters) – The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire today, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ...