Turkish officials have not said what Kurdish groups may have been promised as part of the peace effort. There was no immediate reaction from the PKK’s leadership, which is based in northern Iraq ...

The PKK, known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, launched its war against the Turkish state in the early 1980s, due to perceived ill-treatment of Turkey's Kurdish minority.

In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP ...

Kurdish representation in Kirkuk’s public institutions is much lower than that of Arabs and Turkmen despite making up nearly ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political breakthrough for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.