Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

A group of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday concluded a formal weapons handover ceremony in northern Iraq by burning their surrendered weapons, symbolically ending decades of ...

The PKK’s transition away from armed struggle is expected to culminate in the establishment of a new political party in ...

Following Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan's first ever video message on Jul 9, the group held a ...

By bnm Gulf bureau The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has begun destroying its weapons in an unprecedented move to end armed ...

The country’s ruling bloc initiated the ongoing new Kurdish peace process by offering Abdullah Öcalan the right to hope in ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to ...

After 40 years of armed struggle, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the armed group that has fought for the independence and autonomy of the Kurdish people, has officially announced that it is ...

Against this backdrop, Abdullah Öcalan—the PKK’s imprisoned leader, held in solitary confinement on İmralı Island since 1999—issued a public call on February 27, 2025, for the PKK to ...

The PKK’s decision to disarm came two months after its imprisoned founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, issued a statement suggesting that the war had become obsolete.

Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on the Turkish prison island İmrali since 1999. What is his role in the current process? People's leader Abdullah Öcalan is the one who started this process.