The Kurdistan Workers' Party [a] or PKK (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla group which is primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern …

Mar 1, 2025 · The PKK’s presence in Iraq has been a recurrent source of tension between Baghdad and Ankara. The group holds positions in northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, ...

03/08/2025 March 8, 2025. Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates and the PKK headquarters in Iraq remain ...

Mar 29, 2024 · The mountainous border region between Turkey, Iran and Iraq is home to the guerillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who are involved in the struggle for a solution to the long-simmering question of a Kurdish homeland.

2 days ago · For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and in Syria. At the height of the PKK insurgency in the 1990s, the Turkish army burned villages in the Kurdish countryside. Families who lost their homes moved to Sur where their relatives took them in, adding ...

Mar 7, 2025 · In the early 1980s, favorable relations with the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party allowed for the movement of PKK militants into camps in northern Iraq, from which the PKK launched an armed campaign against Turkey in 1984.

4 days ago · The PKK leadership – from its longstanding command centre in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains – responded to Ocalan’s call by declaring a unilateral ceasefire with final disbandment as well as ...

Mar 10, 2025 · Türkiye has always been concerned with the PKK’s growing international recruitment and financing network, as well as its safe havens in Iran, Iraq, and Syria. The PKK has also proliferated over the years with several offshoots, such as the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan in Iran and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the ...

Jul 23, 2024 · Turkey has been seeking greater cooperation from Baghdad in its fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that has waged an insurgency against Turkey since the 1980s and is banned there.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), also known as Kongra-Gel, is a militant Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. The group aims to gain control of Kurdish areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey to advance Kurdish rights and recognition.