I n a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband.

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 ...

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

PKK terrorists began laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, two months after the terrorist group ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...

Abdullah Öcalan Announces “Voluntary” End of PKK's Armed Struggle With Turkey ... has maintained operational and political independence in Syria. Following Öcalan’s call, ...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the country had “turned . . . a new page in history” as Kurdish militants began to hand over their weapons in the latest step to end a four-decade ...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, deputies of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), met on December 28 with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party ...

Following Abdullah Öcalan’s call for disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Syrian Kurdish leaders said the statement doesn't concern Kurdish-led groups controlling the country's north and ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish ... It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in ...