The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on ...

Supporters of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish PKK group, hold up a poster depicting his face, in Diyarbakir, Turkiye, on February 27, 2025 [Metin Yoksu/AP Photo] Abdullah Ocalan, the ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any future talks after a decision to ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In his latest message on ongoing peace talks with the Turkish state, jailed Kurdistan Workers’ ...

FILE - Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and ...

July 11 (UPI) --The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. After a decades-long insurgency ...

ATTENTION EDITORS - REUTERS PICTURE HIGHLIGHT TRANSMITTED BY 1415 GMT ON MARCH 21, 2013 ANK01 - Demonstrators hold Kurdish flags and portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ...

The PKK has declared its dissolution, ending a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state — Delil SOULEIMAN The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for ...