The PKK’s unilateral disarmament marks a potential turning point in Kurdish relations with the Turkish state, but challenges ...

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter ...

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

The group, the P.K.K., made its declaration days after its long-imprisoned leader urged the movement to disarm and disband, ...

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the four decades since Kurdish separatist group the PKK took up arms against ...

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

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

What to know about the latest effort to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict The overture by Abdullah Ocalan is part of a peace effort at a time of heightened instability and ...

(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members release an statement from the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or ...

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

More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its armed campaign in 1984 for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeastern Turkey. It has since moved away from its separatist goals ...

The next day, the former guerrilla who embodies the decades-long Kurdish rebellion, received his first family visit in four years. Ocalan's capture in exile on February 15, 1999, shocked his ...