“This is not an end, but a critical first step toward an honorable peace,” Bakırhan said. “For us, this marks the tangible ...

Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş and the head of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Ibrahim Kalın, held ...

"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.

The PKK terrorist group's leader Abdullah Öcalan appeared in a video released on Wednesday and reaffirmed the group’s ...

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has called for the group’s formal dissolution, urging a shift from armed struggle to ...

A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq ...

DEM Party launches new peace initiative, seeking talks with Erdoğan & jailed PKK leader Öcalan after meeting Parliament ...

Within this carefully orchestrated narrative, the Turkish state framed the PKK’s disarmament as part of a broader “Turkey-Terror-Free” initiative—conflating the Kurdish question, which ...

However, there is also scepticism. Turkey views the peace process very differently from the Kurds, referring to it as part of the government’s “terror-free Turkey” initiative.

The latest peace effort, which the government labelled "Terror-Free Turkey", was launched in October after a key ally of President Erdoğan suggested that Öcalan could be granted parole were the ...

The militant group said that "all activities" conducted under its name would come to an end after a call by its jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, in February for it to disarm. The PKK has ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, whose leader Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, made the decision to disband in a move towards ending its conflict with Turkey.