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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...
As some members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) prepare to disarm, signaling a new phase in the peace process with the ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An initial group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters is set to disarm in a Sulaimani ...
By bnm Baghdad bureau The Kurdistan Workers' Party announced on July 3 that its fighters in northern Iraq will begin ...
Lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party were to meet Turkey's president on Monday, a day after holding talks with jailed PKK ...
ANKARA, Turkey — The PKK Kurdish militant group announced Monday that it will disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of armed conflict. The ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that peace efforts with Kurds would gain momentum after PKK militants begin ...
Leila, who lives in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which borders Turkey, says she hadn't even heard of the PKK ...
Kurdish leader Ocalan told the PKK to disband, it did: Here’s what to know. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is leading peace efforts to end a Kurdish armed rebellion against Turkiye after four decades.
The PKK, known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, launched its war against the Turkish state in the early 1980s, due to perceived ill-treatment of Turkey's Kurdish minority.
The Kurdish group PKK announced on Monday that it will fully disarm and disband, ending its decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, according to the Firat News Agency, ...
This is all you need to know about why Ocalan and the PKK have given up their armed struggle. Who is Abdullah Ocalan? Ocalan was born to a poor Kurdish farming family on April 4, 1948, in Omerli ...