Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

ISTANBUL — Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government ...

Istanbul (AFP) – Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. In a ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkiye following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband. It was the first reaction from ...

who declared a ceasefire and withdrew fighters to bases in northern Iraq. Turkish officials took steps to improve Kurdish rights, including allowing Kurdish-language broadcasts. The process ...

Ocalan's capture in exile on February 15, 1999, shocked his supporters A mural in northern Syria showing Kurdish fighters with a flag bearing Ocalan's face For many Kurds, Ocalan is a hero whom ...

In a historic call on Thursday, Ocalan called for his PKK to be dissolved and its fighters to lay down their arms in a major step towards ending the decades-long conflict with the Turkish state.

Turkey's wide-scale use of combat drones has pushed most Kurdish fighters into northern Syria and Iraq, where Ankara has continued its raids.