ANKARA, - Turkey's parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party militant group following its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's call ...

The PKK had waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country.

The PKK disarmament, despite the risks, is one of the few bright spots in today's Middle East.

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by reactionary aims related to the imperialist war in the Middle East.

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A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to ...

STORY: Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, burned their weapons on Friday.The event signified the beginning of a disarmament process meant to end a bloody, four-decade insurgency ...

July 11 (UPI) -- The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against ...

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish ...

In a seven-minute video message broadcast on media close to the militants, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, declared that the peace initiative had reached a ...

PKK violence led to the destruction of peaceful Kurdish political parties in Turkey. The Turkish response to PKK violence was directed at all Turkish Kurds, who are the largest ethnic minority in ...