While the PKK declared disbandment amid Öcalan’s call, deep rifts and contradicting statements shadow peace hopes ...

Chair of the KCK Executive Council, stated that Abdullah Öcalan must be released for the PKK to lay down arms.

It should be remembered that there are approximately 40 million Kurds in the Middle East, spread across various countries ...

The congress followed a February appeal by imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan for the group to dissolve and end its four-decade insurgency with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK ...

While this gesture of disarmament appeared to mark a historic turning point—a shift from armed resistance to peaceful, ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, whose leader Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, made the decision to disband in a move towards ending its conflict with Turkey. The Kurdish militant ...

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Istanbul deputy Numan Kurtulmuş was reelected as the speaker of the Turkish ...

Imprisoned founder of the group, Abdullah Öcalan, released a statement from prison calling on the group to convene a ...

The PKK’s decision to disarm came two months after its imprisoned founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, issued a statement suggesting that the war had become obsolete. Öcalan had held secret meetings ...