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PKK disbands after decades of guerrilla warfare, following calls for peace and democratic process by founder Abdullah Ocalan.
Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish farmers have gradually returned with their flocks after decades of armed conflict between Kurdish ...
Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...
The PKK's disarmament following recent developments has the potential to transform Türkiye from a country experiencing ...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – PKK) has laid down its weapons following negotiations with ...
Footage from the ceremony showed the fighters, half of them women, queuing to place AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and ...
Support from the PKK and Turkiye’s politicians signals a change after decades of conflict, but pitfalls remain.
A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.
The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...
President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...
The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. Abdullah Ocalan emphasized ...