After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.

In Diyarbakir, residents express optimism over the PKK’s ceasefire decision, following the call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for disarmament. This development could potentially end a 40-year ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The militia wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party announced a cease-fire with immediate effect Saturday to halt decades of ...

A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday. Ocalan as pictured, called on ...

In a historic move, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called for the group to disarm, paving the way for a new ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist ...