Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man displays a flag with the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Oecalan at the Kurdish Newroz celebration in Frankfurt.

(CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ...

The Kurdish militant group, PKK, handed over its first weapons at a ceremony in Iraq, marking the start of a long and challenging process towards a lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds. Kurdish ...

The Kurdish political scene in the Middle East is no longer synonymous solely with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); today, Kurdish presence in the region is distributed among diverse political ...

Abdullah Ocalan, pictured on the flag, founded the PKK in the late 1970s with the Kurdish militant group taking up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 - Copyright ...