The use of the gun by both groups has fuelled long-standing Turkish accusations that the YPG and PKK closely co-operate, despite US claims to the contrary. Karayilan, also known as Cemal ...

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 almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

Ocalan on Thursday called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve, a move that President Tayyip Erdogan's government and the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party voiced support for. Sign up here.

Outlawed Kurdish militants Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, bringing an end to more than 40 years of bloodshed. The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group ...

Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) display flags with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, during a rally to ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Tuesday said the group ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has declared it will implement a ceasefire with Turkiye, heeding a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan to disarm. The statement by the outlawed group ...

In a message read out by DEM Party members in İstanbul, the imprisoned PKK leader has called on the group to end its four-decade armed insurgency against Turkey and dissolve itself. Abdullah Öcalan, ...