The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia announced its decision on Monday to dissolve the group, a historic move after ...

On this basis, the 12th Congress of the PKK decided to dissolve the organizational structure of the PKK and to end the armed struggle method,” the PKK said. The PKK, which is ...

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.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four ...

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 ...

Monday's decision promises to put an end to one of the longest insurgencies in the Middle East and could have significant impact in Turkey, Syria and Iraq.

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups ...

More recently, it said it sought greater rights for Kurds inside Turkey. More than 40,000 people have been killed in four decades of conflict, both in P.K.K. attacks on military and civilian ...

Turkey's president says he has appointed a team of legal experts to start working on a new constitution which critics say ...

More than 40,000 people have been killed in Turkey's conflict with the PKK, which is also designated a terrorist group by Ankara's Western allies. Bahceli first signalled his intentions when he ...

The conflict killed more than 30,000 people, most of them ethnic Kurds. The war that raged across southeastern Turkey subsided when the PKK declared a unilateral cease-fire for several years after ...

Heightened terrorist activity by Kurdish separatists is also a growing concern for the United States— and its allies—which designated the PKK a foreign ... U.S.-Turkey relations have faltered ...