The Kurdistan Workers Party, a militant organization that seeks an independent Kurdistan, announced it was disbanding, a move that is expected to have wide-ranging consequences throughout the region.

Buldan and Önder have been among those to visit the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in a bid to build a framework to end the fighting that has caused tens of thousands ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the ...

May 12 (UPI) --The Kurdistan Workers' Party, a militant organization that seeks an independent Kurdistan, announced Monday that it was disbanding and ending its conflict with Turkey, a move that ...

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.

Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate in neighboring countries. By Erika Solomon and Ben Hubbard A Kurdish ...

Although skepticism still remains over Kurdish gains, lasting peace, and implications for affiliated groups in Syria. For forty years, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has sought to secure a ...

The banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has announced the forthcoming disclosure of a "historic decision" leading observers to speculate it might announce its disbandment. The "historic decision ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country.