The Kurdistan Workers Party, a militant organization that seeks an independent Kurdistan, announced it was disbanding, a move that is expected to have wide-ranging consequences throughout the region.

Buldan and Önder have been among those to visit the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in a bid to build a framework to end the fighting that has caused tens of thousands ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the ...

Turkish officials have been quick to reassure an unsettled public by pledging massive investment in the defence sector ...

May 12 (UPI) --The Kurdistan Workers' Party, a militant organization that seeks an independent Kurdistan, announced Monday that it was disbanding and ending its conflict with Turkey, a move that ...

The PKK, known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, launched its war against the Turkish state in the early 1980s, due to perceived ill-treatment of Turkey's Kurdish minority.

Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria. For forty years, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has sought to secure a ...

The banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has announced the forthcoming disclosure of a "historic decision" leading observers to speculate it might announce its disbandment. The "historic decision ...

Lebanon’s veteran Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Thursday called on the Iran-backed Hezbollah group to hand its weapons over ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country.