ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...
The group, the P.K.K., made its declaration days after its long-imprisoned leader urged the movement to disarm and disband, ...
Outlawed Kurdish group the PKK has declared a ceasefire with Turkey after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the ...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia has declared an immediate ceasefire in a statement published Saturday by the Firat ...
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday announced a ceasefire with Turkey, two days after its jailed leader ...
The gambit could give the Turkish president a chance to extend his power, while also calming a conflict that threatens to ...
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after ...
The announcement said the cease-fire will pave the way for the implementation of Öcalan’s call for peace and “democratic ...
However, the conflict has been deadly on both sides, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Turkey for abuses against Kurdish civilians, while the PKK has ...
A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...
Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the PKK’s dissolution marks a potential turning point for the Kurdish independence movement and ...