Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...

Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and ...

Building on the broader analysis presented in Part I, this second article focuses on the internal political and strategic ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with ...

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

Support from the PKK and Turkiye’s politicians signals a change after decades of conflict, but pitfalls remain.

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

Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and ...

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

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...

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

The Kurdish guerrilla group held a symbolic ceremony in which a portion of their weapons was set on fire, marking the start ...