Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Following the meeting, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG ... "I hope the PKK takes a strategic approach and does not miss this historic opportunity." Barzani echoed similar sentiments at the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In their first response to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to lay down arms, an umbrella group of the ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband.

Syria's interim government on Monday announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Breaking News ... The call came four months after Ankara offered an olive branch to the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has led a decades-long ...

The Diyarbakır families continue their protest against the PKK in front of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters ...

It was a bloody weekend in Syria, where forces loyal to the government reportedly killed hundreds of civilians.