The PKK Kurdish militant group will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey. ... urged his group to convene a congress and formally decide to disband and disarm. The call by Ocalan, 76, who continues to wields significant influence in the Kurdish movement despite his 25-year imprisonment, marked a pivotal step toward ending ...

May 12, 2025 · The Kurdish militant group announced a historic decision Monday to disband and disarm, after four decades of armed conflict. It comes days after it convened a party congress in northern Iraq.

May 12, 2025 · Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, called on the group to disarm in February. After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers ...

May 15, 2025 · The PKK’s decision to disband is the result of an unlikely sequence of events, precipitated foremost by developments in Syria, including the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. ... Movement Party and a close ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—made an earth-shattering appeal for the PKK to disarm and disband, suggesting that Öcalan may ...

May 12, 2025 · The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has announced that it plans to disband and disarm, potentially bringing decades of conflict with Turkiye to an end. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed...

May 12, 2025 · The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia announced its decision on Monday to dissolve the group, a historic move after decades of conflict with Turkey that have killed tens of thousands of people.

May 12, 2025 · The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced Monday that it will disband and disarm, ending 40 years of conflict with Turkey. The announcement follows a February call by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, for the group to hold a congress and formally dissolve.

May 12, 2025 · A Kurdish militant group has announced it is to disband and disarm as part of a peace initiative with Turkey after four decades of armed conflict. The historic decision by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, comes days after it convened a party congress in northern Iraq.

May 12, 2025 · The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the...

May 12, 2025 · Kurdish Armed Group to Disband: The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced its decision to disband on May 12, in a reported step toward peace following more than four decades of conflict with Turkey. The group declared that the Kurdish issue has reached “a point where it can be resolved through democratic politics.”