“This is not an end, but a critical first step toward an honorable peace,” Bakırhan said. “For us, this marks the tangible ...

Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on Friday. It ...

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

"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

Kurdish National Congress led by President Masoud Barzani, DEM Party co-chair Tuncer Bakırhan told Kurdistan24. He hailed the ...

Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan in early July, the ...

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 ...

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.

The militant group said that "all activities" conducted under its name would come to an end after a call by its jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, in February for it to disarm. The PKK has ...

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been jailed since 1999, has called for the group's disbandment in recent months. (AP: Metin Yoksu) The group's jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, had called for the ...