A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively “frozen” by the Turkish ...

A car bomb attack on a bus carrying off-duty military personnel killed 13 soldiers and wounded 56 in the central Turkish city of Kayseri on Saturday, an incident President Tayyip Erdogan blamed on ...

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 over ...

On July 11, 2025, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call to disarm and dissolve the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 30 guerrillas symbolically burned their weapons in Jasana Cave, Slêmanî, a historic symbol ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The PKK has 'waged an ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s culture ministry has published a 15-volume collection of Kurdish literature, historical ...

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four decades, has decided to disband and end its armed ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced Monday that it is dissolving itself in a historic declaration that could end one of the Middle East’s longest-running ...

Erdoğan is arguably negotiating with the Kurds mainly as a means of securing Kurdish parliamentarians’ votes to extend his rule as president The closest Turkey got to a deal was between 2013 and 2015.

ANKARA, Turkey — A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete step ...