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

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

Erdogan said the recent steps to disarm have united Turkey, and now the parliament will help facilitate the disarmament ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...

Fighters from the Kurdish separatist group PKK begin laying down weapons in Iraq as part of a peace process with Turkey.

Turkey's leader says PKK disarmament opens 'new page in history' after group lays down arms Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed the ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that a new page opened for Turkey following the start of a weapons handover by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.

The group of 30 members burned their weapons in a cauldron in Iraq. The group has been fighting with Turkey for 40 years.

The PKK's announcement that it would stop fighting was seen as a historic moment for Turkey, its Kurdish minority, and neighbouring countries into which the conflict has spilled over.

Bahçeli also commended the DEM Party for maintaining what he described as a responsible political stance. Nationalist ...

Fighters from the Kurdish separatist group PKK begin laying down weapons in Iraq as part of a peace process with Turkey.