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A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency. The members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, ...
Turkey’s Kurdish political movement is unexpectedly emerging as a crucial partner in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ongoing ...
The ceremony took place under tight security at a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan - the disarmament process is expected to last all ...
This is the closest Turkey and the insurgents have come to peace since the PKK took up arms to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...
Turkey has annulled its 1973 pipeline agreement with Iraq to reset legal exposure and pressure Baghdad into a more favorable ...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday warned Kurdish and other groups in Syria against pursuing ...
US and Turkish officials tell Syrian Democratic Forces to stop dragging their feet and join Damascus government within weeks ...
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...
Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand.In a slickly managed ceremony across the border in Iraq Friday, members ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony marking a first step toward a promised disarmament.
On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were ...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country.