For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Turkey. Things are looking up for Ankara as its quest for Eurofighters is nearing a successful ...

But they must not allow Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to use peace as a smokescreen for repression. Having ruled ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a ...

The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the first step toward the group’s promised disarmament. The move on ...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) has formally notified political parties of the formation of a parliamentary ...

After its four-decade insurgency against Turkey's government, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has symbolically laid down its ...

Turkish officials say Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s help to boost its defense capabilities.

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

Umit Ozdag, head of the opposition Victory Party, also sought to stir nationalist passions, slamming the commission as a bid ...

Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...