A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the first concrete step ...

Kurdish armed groups are laying down their weapons In a changing Middle East, for some talking seems more promising than fighting. Share. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Redux/eyevine.

ANKARA, Turkey -- The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take ...

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place as a first ...

Thirty Turkish Kurdish Workers Party PKK fighters destroyed their arms on Friday in a highly symbolic ceremony celebrating ...

The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.