Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should hold a congress and decide ... Revelers danced in the street in the city of ...

(AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) Kurdish residents hold flags showing Abdullah ... influence in the Kurdish movement despite his 25-year imprisonment, during which the PKK has been led by top figures ...

Syrian Kurds hold flags as they gather after ... revered by the pro-Kurdish political movement, it is unclear how much influence he retains over the PKK fighters. In a statement to mark the ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door talks on Monday meant to advance a peace process after Kurdish militants ...

Recent overtures from parliamentarians and the PKK's Ocalan point to a possible breakthrough A protester waves a flag bearing a portrait ... Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and a ...

Ocalan founded the PKK in 1978 as a Kurdish separatist group in Turkey, part of a larger separatist movement by Kurds scattered throughout the region. Violence flared in August 1984 when fighters ...

This move is seen as part of a broader government initiative to have Ocalan call on the PKK separatist movement to disarm, potentially ending a four-decade-old insurgency against the Turkish state.

The imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has waged a bloody ... to eliminate the P.K.K.” Image A supporter holding a flag with a picture of Mr. Ocalan at a spring celebration ...

Turkish National Defense Minister Yasar Guler on Saturday urged the PKK terrorist organization ... and most extensive insurgency and violence movement in the history of the Republic, has come ...