By Ako Rasheed SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

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

The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...

President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. Abdullah Ocalan emphasized ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The disarmament process of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could be completed within four months ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of ...

By the mid-1970s, he was advocating for Kurdish nationalism and went on to found the PKK in 1978. Six years later, the group launched a separatist rebellion against Turkiye under his command.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a ...