PKK's transition. The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, officially declared the group’s ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK, appeared in a rare video to declare the end of the group's armed struggle against Turkey, urging a transition to democratic politics. His message ...

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on Wednesday to declare the group's armed struggle against Turkey over and call for ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on ...

In the first footage of him to be released publicly since 1999, Abdullah Ocalan declared that the PKK's armed struggle ...

The PKK militants are set to begin disarmament in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, as part of a peace initiative with Turkey. DEM party's ...

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to ...

The PKK’s leaders see their latest move less as a surrender than as the advent of a new phase in their movement, which has long promoted an ideology—leftist, secular, environmentalist—that ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, has announced the end to its more than forty-year fight against Turkey, a conflict that claimed more than 40,000 lives. But the declaration, called historic ...

The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced its decision to lay down its weapons and likely abandon its cause. However, ...