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

The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, comes against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, ...

The announcement came just two days after the leader of the militant PKK group, Abdullah Ocalan, whom Turkey has held in ...

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as ...

The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party said it is ready to lay down its arms after a call from its jailed leader to do so.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday. Ocalan as pictured, called on ...

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.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and ...

There was no immediate reaction from the PKK's leadership, which is based in northern Iraq. The group, founded by Ocalan in 1978, has led an insurgency in Turkey’s southeast since 1984.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced a ceasefire in response to leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for disarmament ...

whether PKK-affiliated Kurdish fighters in Syria would disarm, or how quickly Turkey’s government, which has resisted any suggestion it is cutting a deal with Ocalan or the PKK, would offer ...