This is Beirut, 11/07 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state. The ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from armed insurgency to democratic politics, as part of a ...
This is Beirut, 09/07 09:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Kurdish militant PKK group's disarmament process will happen quickly but establishing a Turkish political framework to ensure the switch to democratic politics will be crucial, its jailed founder said Wednesday. Abdullah Ocalan's statement came ahead of Friday's ceremony in northern Iraq for a first tranche of PKK militants to lay ...
This is Beirut, 09/05 15:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) held a "successful" meeting this week with a view to disarming and disbanding, a Kurdish news agency close to the armed movement said on Friday. The meeting resulted in "decisions of historic importance concerning the PKK's activities, based on the call" of founder Abdullah ...