After four decades of fighting, almost 40,000 casualties, and billions of dollars spent, Turkey has failed to contain Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Despite many cross-border operations, the group ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the deaths of over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PKK fighters to begin disarming in Iraqi Kurdistan ceremony SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ...

The road was badly pitted, in some places washed away. There had been no maintenance to the old military road since the end of the Iran-Iraq War, 15 years before. Only local farmers and smugglers used ...

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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with Turkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party).

Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants began handing over weapons in a ceremony in a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, officials said, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a ...

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The recent decision by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm and disband has important lessons for any country facing a seemingly intractable insurgency. On May 12, the group stated that ...

ISTANBUL — The Turkish military on Sunday blamed PKK militants for a deadly car bomb attack that killed two of its soldiers in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, as a fragile truce risked collapsing ...