Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan in early July, the Kurdish media outlet Rudaw reported on Monday. The move comes just six ...

Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan in early July, the Kurdish media outlet Rudaw reported on Monday.

The PKK's announcement that it would stop fighting was seen as a historic moment for Turkey, its Kurdish minority, and neighbouring countries into which the conflict has spilled over.

Germany's federal prosecution office filed charges on Thursday against a suspected member of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), accusing the Turkish citizen of membership in a foreign ...

Since the early 1990s, the PKK has undergone a radical ideological and political transformation—most notably when it succeeded in compelling then-President Süleyman Demirel to acknowledge, for ...

Where the PKK once contributed to ethnic polarisation within Turkey and even among Kurds, the Rojava model now emphasises the transition to plurality, feminism, and decentralisation.

The Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, has announced the end to its more than forty-year fight against Turkey, a conflict that claimed more than 40,000 lives. But the declaration, called historic ...

Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan on May 12 called for the group to disarm and disband after a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state that cost more than 40,000 lives.

The PKK has been one of the longest-lasting armed movements in the Middle East. Like almost all of the armed groups of its era, its birth as a military force took place in Bekaa Valley, in ...