The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is a Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. It is classified as a ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Ankara’s ultimate goal is to end terrorism, completely eliminate terrorist organizations, and eradicate any threats to ...

The PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on the group, designated a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies, to disarm and disband. DW's Julia Hahn has the latest.

ANKARA, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said Saturday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) must dissolve "as soon as possible" and surrender its weapons ...

Turkey’s president on Friday urged the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to seize the “historic opportunity” to end the ...

If President Donald Trump truly wants peace in the Middle East, he should support the Turkey-PKK peace process.

Türkiye on Thursday said the National Security Council (MGK) would closely and carefully monitor the disarmament and ...

The PKK’s disarmament will help Erdoğan on the foreign policy front as well. He wants to bolster trade, expand energy and defence co-operation, and improve connectivity with Iraq. The PKK’s presence ...

Here's what you need to know. The PKK: A brief history The PKK was founded in 1978 with the goal of establishing an independent, socialist-orientated Kurdish state in the Middle East. Later ...

As a party linked to the PKK terrorist group complains about ambiguity in the terror-free Türkiye initiative, the government ...