Kurdistan Workers' Party - Wikipedia
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 …
PKK declares ceasefire in 40-year conflict with Turkiye
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 …
Middle East: What an end of the PKK would mean for Kurds
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 …
A complex relationship: The PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan
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 …
Kurds cautiously optimistic about PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey
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 …
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) | Kurdish Militancy, History,
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 …
Analysis: Call to disband PKK reshapes Turkiye, Syria power …
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 …
What’s Behind the Monumental Shift Between Türkiye and the PKK
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 …
Iraq bans a Kurdish separatist group and strengthens its …
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 …
National Counterterrorism Center | Terrorist Groups
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 …