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Kurdish militant PKK group begins disarming, starting a process designed to end the Turkish conflict. Also: Southern Gaza’s last hospital is forced to stop admitting patients as Israeli troops ...
Leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) welcomed the symbolic disarmament of a group of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in Sulaimani on Friday.
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...
A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed a move by Kurdish PKK militants to begin destroying their weapons Friday as a ...
A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters burned a cache of weapons in northern Iraq in a rare public display of disarmament, ...
The move comes after the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) urged his group to formally disband and disarm.
The PKK's original aim was to establish a Kurdish state in the southeast of Turkey, but over time its goals evolved into a ...
Turkey must release jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan to ensure the success of the peace process, a top commander told AFP after the Kurdish militant group began destroying its arms Friday. "Ensuring ...
In a historic move, the Kurdish separatist group PKK has initiated disarmament, marking a vital phase in the peace process ...
Turkey must push through legal reforms to allow PKK militants to return home without fear of being jailed or killed, a top commander told AFP after the Kurdish militant group began disarming Friday.