For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

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ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...

If his followers heed that call, it would mark a turning point for Turkey and have far-reaching implications for the Middle East. The conflict between the PKK and Turkey has had devastating ...

Erdogan's willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders signals a potential shift in Turkey's stalled peace process with the PKK ...

On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were wary of ...

His appeal, under the heading “Call for Peace and Democratic Society,” came a decade after the last negotiations between Turkey and the PKK broke down, raising the prospect of an end to one of ...

There was no immediate reaction from the PKK's leadership, which is based in northern Iraq. The group, founded by Ocalan in ...

The conflict between the PKK and Turkey has had devastating effects on Turkey and neighbors. Ocalan’s peace call on Thursday marked a major turning point and could have far-reaching implications ...

Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week after jailed militant leader Abdullah ...

Ocalan’s call and the PKK’s declaration were part of an effort to end the conflict that was initiated in October by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ally, Devlet Bahceli, who is the leader of Turkey’s ...