Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast. But in recent years the group has called for more autonomy within ...

Ocalan on Thursday called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve, a move that President Tayyip Erdogan's government and the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party voiced support for. Sign up here.

when opposition candidates won key mayoral races throughout the country. They were aided by the tacit support of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM.) The process that led ...

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.

Flags bearing the images of Abdullah Ocalan, founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), are waved during a protest organized by the Kurdish community in Rome marking the 26th ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, two days ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ...