Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

The P.K.K. leadership, which is based in the Qandil Mountains of Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, responded to the call by the founder, Abdullah Ocalan, by announcing a unilateral cease-fire on ...

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ROME, Mar 5 2025 (IPS) - “The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year ... Turkey's southeast and pressed it deep into the steep and unforgiving mountains of northern Iraq," he said. In recent years, the PKK has been limited ...

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

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ... has killed more than 40,000 people since the PKK – now based in the mountains of northern Iraq – launched its armed insurgency in 1984.

The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous ...

(Reuters) – The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ... more than 40,000 people since the PKK – now based in the mountains of northern Iraq – launched its armed insurgency in 1984.