The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the militant group involved in a four-decade-long insurgency against Turkey, has announced it will disband and end its armed operations. The decision, declared in a ...

Let’s go back to the 1920s in Turkey. The country had just won its freedom. But, it faced rebellions from people who didn’t want to be called “Mountain Turks.” The Turkish state didn’t want cultural ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The PKK has 'waged an insurgency' against Turkey since 1984 and an estimated 40,000 people have ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said Monday that it will disband and disarm after four decades of armed conflict with Turkey. The decision was announced through the Firat News Agency, a media ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced Monday that it is dissolving itself in a historic declaration that could end one of the Middle East’s longest-running ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a ...

Turkey's Kurds are hoping that Ankara's bid to end the decades-long PKK conflict won't be hurt by Damascus' lightning offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria that was backed by Turkey.

The Syrian authorities and the Kurds have begun the final phase of the implementation of the agreement signed on November 27, ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete ...