The outlawed Kurdish PKK said it was currently "impossible" for its leadership to safely meet to formally dissolve the group in line with a demand by its jailed founder, Kurdish media reported Friday.

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates and the PKK headquarters in Iraq remain ambivalent. What are their options?

Ocalan’s call comes as value of armed fight diminishes, and Kurdish political participation grew – will this continue?

Some even suggest that the Turkish President will likely use Ocalan’s call as a way to persuade Kurdish voters to support a ...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition ...

Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an ...

If Ocalan's declaration does not by itself signal the conclusion of the PKK-Ankara war, what is it nevertheless likely to ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...

Agreement appears to fulfil some key Turkish demands but Ankara will remain vigilant about how the SDF dissolves ...