A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

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Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Tuesday condemned a call ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades of hostilities.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

This is the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq which has its own government, called the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The KRG is a wealthy and relatively stable region of Iraq. It ...

ANKARA, Turkey — 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 ...

PKK fighters destroy weapons in historic ceremony, marking transition from armed insurgency to democratic politics.

After decades of an insurgency against the Turkish government, members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, known as the PKK, ceremonially laid down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq. The group’s ...

Kurdish Insurgent Group Says It Is Ending Conflict With Turkish State. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could ...