A portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and a sign with the words "Serok Apo," are displayed on a hillside in the Qandil mountains, Iraq, October 26, 2025.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has appeared on a video urging his group to move toward peace. It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to ...

A senior Kurdistan Workers' Party commander has told AFP the group will take no further steps in the peace process with Turkey, urging it to advance negotiations by freeing PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan ...

July 11 (UPI) --The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...

Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan — Ina FASSBENDER Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a ...

ANKARA – A Turkish parliamentary committee set up to oversee a new peace initiative with Kurdish militants on Friday voted in favor of a controversial step to meet with the militant group’s leader, ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish parliamentary delegation held talks Monday with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group, as part of an ongoing peace initiative to end a decades-long ...