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

For 40 years, the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known by its Turkish initials PKK, have waged war against the Turkish state in a conflict that’s left more than 40,000 dead.

The MHP leader labeled the PKK's announcement "not appropriate," departing his previous idea that it would "benefit everyone.

If Ocalan's declaration does not by itself signal the conclusion of the PKK-Ankara war, what is it nevertheless likely to ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised Saturday to smoke out Kurdish separatist rebels using Iraq as a base to launch attacks into neighboring Turkey. The Iraqi leader spoke at a gathering of ...

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 ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the state ...

(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members release an statement from the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or ...

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members release an statement from the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, center at ...

reads a statement from jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, whose photo is seen in the background, during a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27 ...

or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, center at the background photo, in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Credit: AP/Khalil Hamra On Thursday, a delegation of Kurdish politicians announced Ocalan’s ...