The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to ...

A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency affiliated with ...

However, the conflict has been deadly on both sides, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Turkey for abuses against Kurdish civilians, while the PKK has ...

ERBIL – The Turkish Interior Ministry has appointed a state trustee to replace Mehmet Alkan, the mayor of Kagizman district in Kars province, over alleged ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), ...

Ocalan, 75, founded the PKK, in 1978, which began an armed insurrection for an autonomous Kurdish state in Turkey’s southeast in 1984, costing tens of thousands of lives. The group is considered ...

Turkish police on Monday detained 388 suspects over alleged connections to the PKK terrorist group in the eastern Van province. The suspects, captured in raids between Feb. 17-23, were detained as ...

This would be a critical test of the PKK’s sincerity in its commitment to the peace process,” Efkan Ala, Deputy Chairman of the AK Party, stated. ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Turkey’s ruling Justice and ...

Organizers said the Kurdish administration -- which controls ... the People’s Protection Units (YPG), of being affiliated with the outlawed PKK, which has long waged an insurgency against ...

Although the conference was called to chart the country’s future, the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of Syria’s northeast was not invited. By Raja Abdulrahim and Euan Ward Reporting fr ...