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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faced with right-wing attacks amid a growing national profile, Japan’s Kurds could benefit from simple, pragmatic ...

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 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.

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 ...

Public frustration is surging across Sulaymaniyah province in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, as government employees face their ...

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.