For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

The ceasefire between the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, and Turkey doesn’t just affect that country. It could have widespread effects also on Iraq and Syria. Kurdish Leaders and Kurds in those ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates ...

The PKK, known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, launched its war against the Turkish state in the early 1980s, due to ...

Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The PKK leader’s calls for the group to disarm and dissolve is a step towards ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish ...

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, comes against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, including the reconfiguration of power in neighboring Syria after ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is a Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. It is classified as a ...

Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK has declared a ceasefire with Turkey after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the ...

A separatist Kurdish group said it will implement a ceasefire from Saturday, in response to a call by its imprisoned leader ...