Turkey's parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK ...

Residents of a camp in northern Iraq housing Kurdish refugees from Turkey say difficult conditions in the camp have not eased ...

Turkey's government has called the PKK's disarmament an opportunity for a peaceful future and promised to work toward stability and reconciliation. In February, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has ...

Makhmour Camp, seen by Ankara as a PKK stronghold, will be emptied by September under a Turkey-Iraq-KRG peace agreement, ...

A newly formed parliamentary committee has begun meeting to oversee a peace process with a Kurdish militant group.

Turkey’s newly formed parliamentary commission, tasked with establishing a legal framework for the peace process between ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK, a senior official said Tuesday, following the militant Kurdish group’s ...

ANKARA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons within days, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK Party said on Tuesday, the clearest sign yet that ...

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 ...

Making peace with the PKK—something no Turkish leader managed in four decades—is bound to strengthen Erdogan’s powerful grip on Turkey.

The PKK initially launched its struggle with the goal of establishing an independent Kurdish state. Over time, it moderated its objectives toward autonomy and greater Kurdish rights within Turkey.