It is essential for all armed elements involved in terror acts in Syria to be excluded from equation,' says Hakan Fidan ...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition ...

Turkey on Thursday insisted the PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm and disband "immediately", a week after a ...

The banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, declared a ceasefire in the 40-year insurgency against the Turkish government on Saturday, responding to a call to disarm by the group’s leader, Abdullah ...

A protester waves a flag bearing a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan ... as lawmakers from Turkey’s largest pro-Kurdish DEM Party took turns reading Ocalan’s orders to his ...

(AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) Ahmet Turk, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) delegation, ...

Kurdistan Workers Party, in a major development, declares a ceasefire following a call from its imprisoned founder, Abdullah ...

After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) TURK: (Speaking Kurdish). ARRAF: "All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK dissolve itself." That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the ...

In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' ...

In Diyarbakir, residents express optimism over the PKK’s ceasefire decision, following the call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for disarmament. This development could potentially end a 40-year ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...