Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, burned their weapons on Friday. The event signified the beginning of a ...

Since then, Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have dug in to watch the fallout of the war, each refusing to move next and stalling efforts to end ⁠the four-decade conflict, according ⁠to ...

Terrorist attack kills at least 19 civilians, including patients and medical staff, and injures some 27 others, officials say ...

ANKARA, May 13 (Reuters) - Turkey's attempt to finish its decades-old conflict with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group has stalled, with both sides waiting for the other to act in a ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was formed in Ankara, Turkey, in 1978 for the purpose of achieving, through armed struggle, an independent Kurdistan. The PKK has killed civilians, bombed tourist ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party).

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The one-year anniversary of the latest self-dissolution declaration by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) arrived earlier this month. And at a press conference held in ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Kurdish militant group PKK announced Monday that it is disbanding and renouncing armed conflict as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of hostilities.

July 11 (UPI) --The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...

Turkey's Erdogan Heralds 'New Phase' in PKK Peace Process ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey had entered a "new phase" in efforts to end Kurdish militant violence ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the deaths of over ...

IRBIL, Iraq — A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively “frozen” by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday. He and ...