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Since 1984, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that has cost over 40,000 ...
A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...
President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...
Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish farmers have gradually returned with their flocks after decades of armed conflict between Kurdish ...
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.
Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...
ISTANBUL, July 10 (Reuters) - The handover of weapons by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq, following its ...
Turkey began a peace process with the PKK in 2013, and two years later Ocalan made a similar call for his followers to lay down their arms. But just a few months later, violence flared again, and ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is embarking on a hazardous path to ensure the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group implements its decision to disband after 40 years of conflict, facing ...
LICE, Turkey - Standing in a parched field far from any roads in Turkey’s southeastern mountains, a teary-eyed Sokrun Gunduz clutched photographs of her two absent sons. Mazlum, 15, is in a ...