Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq, the first concrete step towards a promised disarmament as part of a ...

Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK, a senior official said, following the militant Kurdish group’s announcement that it is dissolving and ending its decades-long armed conflict with the Turkish ...

A Kurdish militant group has announced a historic decision to disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, after four decades of armed conflict.