The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party has called on his group to disarm and disband in a bid to end 40 years of fighting with the Turkish state.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The next step in peace talks between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) must come from Ankara, a Kurdish politician affiliated with the PKK told Rudaw last week.

EDITORIAL. Following the call by the PKK's historic leader, Abdullah Öcalan, to dissolve his organization, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must agree to enter into a political discussion to put an end to 40 years of war.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party will kick off a new round of meetings with Turkish political parties next week, starting with the strongest opposition party. This comes amid ongoing progress in peace talks between Ankara and Kurdish rebels.

Iraq's national security adviser on Wednesday urged Turkish forces and PKK fighters to withdraw from the country's north if a peace plan between Ankara and the outlawed group is successfully implemented.

ANKARA - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party expects to visit Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan in jail within days after which he is expected to make a statement on the Kurdish separatist group's future,

Iraq’s Kurdistan regional president Nechirvan Barzani on Thursday welcomed jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve. “We […]

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday (local time) declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group,

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland.

Ankara wants a success story without Western oversight.

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after the peace call by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK),

ISTANBUL - A delegation of Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party went on Thursday to visit jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan in his island prison, where he was expected to give them a statement that Ankara hopes will pave the way for his outlawed group to disarm.