Leila, who lives in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which borders Turkey, says she hadn't even heard of the PKK ...

The militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) made "historic decisions" at a congress this week after a call from its jailed leader to dissolve, ... Turkey, March 23, 2025.

On February 27, Abdullah Öcalan published a historic “Call for Peace and a Democratic Society.” In it, he calls on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to convene a congress to decide on its ...

Building on the momentum, the PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire on March 1, but attached conditions, including the creation of a legal framework for peace negotiations.

In March, the PKK publicly announced that it would comply with Ocalan’s directive and declared a ceasefire. As part of ongoing negotiations between Ocalan and the Turkish government, ...

The PKK decision comes amid tumult in Turkish politics: Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan's main challenger, was jailed in March pending corruption charges in a move that sparked ...

UN experts on Friday welcomed the unilateral ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on March 1 after more than four decades of armed conflict with Türkiye, calling it a “significant ...

Building on the momentum, the PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire on March 1, but attached conditions, including the creation of a legal framework for peace negotiations.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency reported.

The PKK was a Marxist-Leninist organization that formed, under Ocalan, in 1978 and sought an independent Kurdistan. It has led an insurgency against Turkey from Syria, where it was based, since 1984.

What does the PKK’s disarming mean for its regional allies? Syria’s SDF is unlikely to follow the PKK’s lead and disarm, but talks with Damascus could be bolstered.

The PKK declared a ceasefire in March following the disarmament appeal by Ocalan, and its congress announcement had been expected by the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, the third largest in Turkey's ...