Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish ...

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of l ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after ...

In a historic move, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called for the group to disarm, paving the way for a new ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after ...

Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the PKK’s dissolution marks a potential turning point for the Kurdish independence movement and ...

The call from Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, could have far-reaching consequences for Turkey, Syria, and the broader ...

Speculation has been rife in Turkey for weeks about an anticipated statement from the jailed leader of Kurdistan Workers’ ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In their first response to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to lay down arms, an umbrella group of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Friday said the jailed leader’s message has ...