The separatist Kurdish group, the PKK, has agreed to lay down arms to end a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey, a historic step that could strengthen the Nato member’s aspirations to become ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A new Kurdish institute officially opened its doors on Sunday in Switzerland’s southwestern city of Lausanne, on the shores of the Geneva lake. “The Kurdish Institute ...

Since the PKK launched its insurgency in 1984 - originally with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state - the conflict has killed more than 40,000 people, exerted a huge economic burden ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the deaths of ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish group, in February called for it to lay down arms and dissolve. Ocalan helped found the group in 1978 and was arrested just over two decades ...

It fought for Kurdish autonomy for years, a fight that has been declared over now. This is all you need to know about why Ocalan and the PKK have given up their armed struggle. Ocalan was born to ...

The Kurdish issue has come “to a point where it can be resolved through democratic politics,” the PKK said in a statement. The 12th Congress, a high-level decision-making meeting by the group ...

A separatist Kurdish group agreed to lay down arms to end a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey, an historic step that could strengthen Ankara’s aspirations to become a regional powerhouse.