ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander has said that the group will not surrender arms unless the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan is physically freed.

Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan on May 12 called for the group to disarm and disband after a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state that cost more than 40,000 lives. Issued on: 20 ...

Kurdish PKK fighters. (Kurdishstruggle via Wikimedia/CC BY 2.0). The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a secessionist campaign against Turkey since 1978, announced on May 12 its decision ...

On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in which he called on the group to lay down its arms, it has announced it will disband.

The PKK took its decision at a congress held in response to a February call to disband from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned on an island south of Istanbul since 1999.

The Kurdish militant group known as the PKK announced this week that it would end its "work under the name of PKK." The announcement has been hailed as the end of a decades-long armed insurgency ...

Since the PKK launched its insurgency in 1984 – originally with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state – the conflict has killed more than 40,000 people, exerted a huge economic ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group on Monday announced the historic decision to dissolve itself, ending 40 years of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Firat news agency ...

PKK’s announcement to dissolve itself heeds a call by founder Abdullah Ocalan, jailed since 1999. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Middle East News: The PKK Kurdish militant group has declared its intention to disband and disarm, marking a pivotal moment in a new peace initiative with Turkey that could bring an end to decades ...

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 deaths of ...

Kurdish PKK disbands and ends 40-year Turkey insurgency Syrian Kurds gather after Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms ...