ANKARA, July 12. /TASS/. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the 47-year era of terrorism in the republic has effectively ended following the formal disarmament ceremony held by ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that a new page opened for Turkey following the start ...

For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will ...

Greetings from a sweltering Ankara.This week in Turkey was one of striking contrasts: While peace talks with Kurdish ...

According to earlier reports, the first group of PKK militants laid down their arms in the mountains of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday ...

When she stares out of her living room window, frail pensioner Maggie Jean Mackenzie rarely takes in the old, weathered ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

The group took up arms in 1984, beginning a string of bloody attacks on Turkish soil that sparked a conflict that cost more ...

This frame grab from a video released by Rudaw TV shows PPK ( Kurdistan Workers' Party ) fighters arriving for a symbolic ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a ...