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

As a partner in the "Our Media" project, IPS Communication Foundation/bianet has collaborated with organizations from Bosnia ...

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.

After a 40-year conflict with Turkey that has killed 40,000 people, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, declared ...

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.

Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's ...

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

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

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...

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

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, in a ...

The announcement said the cease-fire will pave the way for the implementation of Öcalan’s call for peace and “democratic ...