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After decades of insurgency against Turkey, PKK begins disarming in step toward peace
For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will end its insurgency against Turkey. The separatist group’s disbandment comes after its imprisoned leader announced an end to its 41-year armed struggle and a transition to democratic politics.
In a departure from global disarmament precedents, the PKK chose to destroy its weapons not by burying them but by burning ...
The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with ...
Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...
After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its ...
Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...
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Turkey's Kurdish regions not yet ready to believe in peace processSoutheast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...
Turkey must push through legal reforms to allow PKK militants to return home without fear of being jailed or killed, a top commander told AFP after the Kurdish militant group began disarming Friday.
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