Youngsters hold a photograph of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the militant Kurdish group, or PKK, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2025. Credit: AP By The Associated Press Updated July 9 ...

The PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire in March in response to Ocalan’s call and later announced its decision to disarm. It was not immediately clear what concessions, if any, the Kurdish ...

The Kurdish insurgent group PKK in Turkey says it will lay down its arms and disband after a decades-long fight that killed tens of thousands. Latest U.S.

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

T he jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Wednesday again urged his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is set to take place as a ...

Founded by Ocalan in 1978, the PKK has waged a war against the Turkish state for decades. The group initially fought for an independent state in the Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast.

In March, the PKK declared an immediate ceasefire after Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group. The conflict is estimated to have killed at least 40,000 people.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants began handing over weapons in a ceremony in a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, officials said, marking a symbolic ...

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place as a first ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia announced its decision on Monday to dissolve the group, a historic move after decades of conflict with Turkey that have killed tens of thousands of people.

Zagros Hiwar, a PKK spokesman, said that a group of 20 to 30 fighters would descend from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of civil society organizations and invited observers.