Driven by renewed dialogue between Kurdish lawmakers and jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, the act—led by senior female ...

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Perhaps we witnessed the most concrete and tangible steps ever taken toward peace; top-down and bottom-up. Despite its weight ...

Can a symbolic act of disarmament by the PKK mark the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the four-decade Kurdish ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed start of a disarmament process by militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a "painful chapter" in Turkey's troubled history.

After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its ...

Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.

The Kurdish guerrilla group held a symbolic ceremony in which a portion of their weapons was set on fire, marking the start ...