The decision should be seen against the background of the military situation between the sides. Skillful Turkish use of drone warfare has reduced the PKK’s ability to carry out effective ...

Ocalan on Thursday called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve, a move that President Tayyip Erdogan's government and the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party voiced support for. Sign up here.

(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 ...

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve themselves.

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN)-- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised Saturday to smoke out Kurdish separatist rebels using Iraq as a base to launch attacks into neighboring Turkey. The Iraqi ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has declared it will implement a ceasefire with Turkiye, heeding a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan to disarm. The statement by the outlawed group ...

reads a statement from jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, whose photo is seen in the background, during a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27 ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, bringing an end to more than 40 years of bloodshed. The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...

Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli issued a statement on Mar 9, addressing the responses from Kurdish groups following Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the group ...