For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups suspected of being affiliated with the PKK, such as the Sinjar Resistance Units in northern Iraq, have been indirectly supported by Iran.

ANKARA: After the decision by the Kurdish group PKK to disband, Türkiye was eyeing on Wednesday a raft of legal and technical measures to ensure

This week’s disbanding of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could see its ailing 77-year-old founder Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in jail for 26 years, “get house arrest in the sunny Turkish Riviera”,

To fully disarm, we must also trust the state," said Murat Karayılan, a senior member of the militant group that declared its disbanding.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. After a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state that resulted in tens of ...

Decision concluded at PKK's 12th congress under call of imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan, as reported by Firat News

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has welcomed the group's decision to dissolve itself in line with his appeal in February.