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.
Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
The conflict between the PKK and Turkey has had devastating effects on Turkey and neighbors. Ocalan’s peace call on Thursday marked a major turning point and could have far-reaching implications ...
A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...
His appeal, under the heading “Call for Peace and Democratic Society,” came a decade after the last negotiations between Turkey and the PKK broke down, and raised the prospect of an end to a ...
On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK ...
Outlawed Kurdish militants Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that since the conflict between the PKK and Turkey began in 1984, it has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people. However, according to ...
The PKK was established by Ocalan in 1978, initially seeking full independence and statehood for Turkey's large Kurdish minority, but later asking for autonomy. Since then, as many as 40,000 ...
By Carlotta Gall By seeking a peace deal with Kurdish militants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is attempting something momentous that not only aims to end 40 years of violent insurgency ...
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