Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

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The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

Turkey’s president on Friday urged the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to seize the “historic opportunity” to end the ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on the group he founded to lay down its arms and disband in a historic statement shared by pro-Kurdish ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, bringing an end to more than 40 years of bloodshed. The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group, Abdullah ...

President Masoud Barzani said on Friday that he hopes jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abullah Ocalan is released ...

“I am making a call for the laying down of arms, and I take on the historical responsibility for this call,” Ocalan said in his remarks that were relayed at a news conference in Istanbul. “All groups ...

Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have far ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...