The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after ...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that a disarmament call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan ...

After decades of fighting, the Kurdish group’s imprisoned leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms.

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as ...

The PKK "has fulfilled its mission," says Remzi Kartal, co-chair of the Kurdistan People's Congress (KONGRA-GEL) ...

Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish ...

Many interpreted Öcalan's additional message, which was not included in his letter, as an indication that the legal and ...

Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm sparked relief but also fears for the future among Kurds in ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after ...

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

In a historic move, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called for the group to disarm, paving the way for a new ...