PKK says group has completed its "historical mission" A group of armed Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) enter northern Iraq in the Heror area, northeast of Dahuk, Iraq, May ...

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 ...

Militant fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will begin handing over weapons in groups in the northern Iraqi city ...

The PKK has sought to create an independent Kurdish state on Turkish soil, where the Kurds make up some 20% of Turkey's 86 million population. The U.S., the European Union and Turkey have ...

PKK guerillas take positions during a patrol through a mountain pass along the Iraq-Iran border in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region on November 20, 2006.

Jailed PKK leader had called for group to dissolve More than 40,000 have been killed in 40-year conflict Erdogan welcomes move as important threshold Security consequences for region including ...

In February, Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's founder who is jailed in Turkey, appealed for it to disarm and dissolve. The decision opens the door to ending a conflict that has ravaged southeastern ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia announced its decision on Monday to dissolve the group, a historic move after decades of conflict with Turkey that have killed tens of thousands of people.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four decades, decided to disband and end its armed struggle.

The PKK's military wing, the People's Defense Center, however, insisted the attack on TUSAS was not linked to any "political agenda" and had been planned well in advance.