PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is leading peace efforts to end a Kurdish armed rebellion against Turkiye after four decades.

A "major paradigm shift" is required to mend fractured ties between Turkey and its Kurdish minority after the PKK's historic ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has welcomed the group's decision to dissolve ...

The Kurdish militant group has led an armed insurgency since 1984 that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan on May 12 called for the group to disarm and disband after a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state that cost more than 40,000 lives. The Kurdish ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A militant Kurdish group announced on Friday that it had made “historic” decisions during its long-awaited congress earlier this week. The group, however, stopped short of saying ...

To fully disarm, we must also trust the state," said Murat Karayılan, a senior member of the militant group that declared its ...

A top official says Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK following the ...

The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on Friday, about two months after its imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, also known as “Appo”, called on the group to ...