While this gesture of disarmament appeared to mark a historic turning point—a shift from armed resistance to peaceful, ...

Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, is ending its war against the Turkish state.This signals the end of one ...

The Kurdish insurgent group PKK in Turkey says it will lay down its arms and disband after a decades-long fight that killed tens of thousands.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made resolving the Kurdish conflict, which has left tens of thousands of people dead over ... decision of PKK has opened the door to a new era.

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

The announcement, part of a new peace initiative with Ankara designed to end four decades of violence, followed a call in February by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan for the group to lay down ...

The declaration came months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the group to convene a congress and formally decide to dismantle itself as part of a new peace effort with ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of ...

Turkey is embarking on a hazardous path to ensure the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group implements its decision to disband after 40 years of conflict, facing obstacles that need to be ...

A top official says Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK following the militant Kurdish group’s announcement that it is ending its decades-long arme ...