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Turkey attempts to neutralise PKK tunnels in Iraq despite dissolution of Kurdish militant group
While the PKK has announced its dissolution and intention to stop fighting, clashes continue in Iraqi Kurdistan between ...
Ocalan: founder of the Kurdish militant PKK who authored its end
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...
Jailed Kurdish militant leader urges PKK fighters to disarm before a symbolic peace ceremony
The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. Abdullah Ocalan emphasized ...
PKK to destroy weapons
Due to sensitivities over the abandonment of the insurgency, the fighters will destroy rather than surrender their weapons.
Five key dates in the Turkey-PKK conflict
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will start laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, ...
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PKK no longer seeks independent Kurdistan, Ocalan says in rare video
The PKK's jailed leader says in video address that his movement no longer seeks a nation state ahead of ceremony to lay down ...
PKK moves towards peace: Ocalan’s historic appeal for a democratic future
It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.The PKK had said it would lay down its arms ...