Making peace with the PKK could also lead to a major advance in Erdogan’s mission to stabilise Syria under a friendly new government, as the biggest threat to those new rulers is the US-backed Syrian ...

Now, PKK’s founder, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on Kurdish fighters to lay down their arms. However, it remains unclear how ...

The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency since 1984 ...

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the four decades since Kurdish separatist group the PKK took up arms against ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after ...

In a historic move, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called for the group to disarm, paving the way for a new ...

The gambit could give the Turkish president a chance to extend his power, while also calming a conflict that threatens to ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after ...

In Turkey, the jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan has called on his followers in the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ ...

All Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, including U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces, must lay down their weapons after the ...

The jailed leader of the PKK called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, ...