The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency reported.

The potential talks would mark the first direct engagement of its kind since Abdullah Ocalan's capture in 1999.

Now 76, Ocalan has been held in solitary confinement since 1999 on Imrali prison island near Istanbul. But since October, when Turkey tentatively moved to reset ties with the PKK, Ocalan has ...

The recent decision by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disarm and disband has important lessons for any country facing ...

A "major paradigm shift" is required to mend fractured ties between Turkey and its Kurdish minority after the PKK's historic disarmament move, jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan said Sunday.

A former senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Wednesday said Turkey’s renewed push for peace with the group ...

PKK's Ocalan seeks talks with President Barzani to revive peace process, says DEM Party. Calls grow for Turkish parliamentary ...

After decades of repression, many of Turkey’s Kurds are hopeful that their long struggle for basic rights may finally be ...

The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on Friday, about two months after its imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, also known as “Appo”, called on the group to ...