Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...

Greetings from a sweltering Ankara.This week in Turkey was one of striking contrasts: While peace talks with Kurdish ...

According to earlier reports, the first group of PKK militants laid down their arms in the mountains of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday ...

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

The group took up arms in 1984, beginning a string of bloody attacks on Turkish soil that sparked a conflict that cost more ...

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish ...

The Turkish leader wished for God’s help on the path the country is following "for the sake of our security, our people, and lasting peace in the region" ...

A PKK fighter participates in a disarmament ceremony in Sulaimaniya, Iraq, on July 11, 2025. — Reuters On Friday, thirty ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants will hand over their weapons in a ...

After decades of an insurgency against the Turkish government, members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, known as the PKK, ceremonially laid down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq. The group’s ...