ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday announced a ceasefire with Turkey, two days after its jailed leader ...

A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has urged his followers to lay down ...

After Öcalan’s long-awaited call, the people of Diyarbakır left the square with mixed emotions. The early Newroz excitement ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In their first response to Abdullah Ocalan’s call to lay down arms, an umbrella group of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Friday said the jailed leader’s message has ...

2013-2015: fragile truce Ocalan told the PKK to lay down their arms in a letter read out on March 21, 2013 during Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, as part talks with the government of then premier Recep ...

Ocalan is widely expected to call on for his followers to lay down their arms in the coming weeks with Kurdish politicians confident it will be no later than Newroz, the Kurdish New Year ...