There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

ANKARA, Turkey — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the state ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - All Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, including U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces, must lay down their weapons after the peace call from the jailed leader of the outlawed ...

ISTANBUL — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has ...

Here's a primer on Syria's main Kurdish groups and their PKK ties. After the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, a Kurdish armed group - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - established control ...

(CNN) — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long ...

02/27/2025 February 27, 2025 Signs suggest that Turkey may release its top state enemy, Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, from jail. Why is Turkey seeking peace now ...

Jailed Kurdish Militant Leader's Message to Be Shared on Thursday By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold a press conference on Thursday to discuss talks with ...

According to the results, the population of the Kurdistan region is at 6.5 million, about 14% of the Iraqi population. Fazil Nabi, the former deputy minister of Iraq's Finance Ministry ...

Although the conference was called to chart the country’s future, the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of Syria’s northeast was not invited. By Raja Abdulrahim and Euan Ward Reporting fr ...