It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.The PKK had said it would lay down its arms ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to ...

In the recording, dated June and released by Firat News Agency, which is close to the PKK, Ocalan urged Turkey's parliament to set up a commission to oversee disarmament and manage a broader peace pro ...

"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), appeared in a rare online video on Wednesday to declare the group’s armed struggle against Turkey over and called for ...

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. In a video message on ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said the group's armed struggle against ...

Militant fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will begin handing over weapons in groups in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday as part of a peace process with Turkey, Turkish ...

The PKK’s leaders see their latest move less as a surrender than as the advent of a new phase in their movement, which has long promoted an ideology—leftist, secular, environmentalist—that ...

The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced its decision to lay down its weapons and likely abandon its cause. However, ...

On the one hand, there seems to be great longing for peace between Turkey and the PKK. This has been evidenced by the positive reactions to the PKK’s statement both nationally and internationally.