ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with a handover of the first batch of weapons by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces, a step he said opened a new page for the country.

The Kurdish guerrilla group held a symbolic ceremony in which a portion of their weapons was set on fire, marking the start of their disarmament process. This

After announcing they would disarm, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) destroyed their weapons in northern Iraq.

A Kurdish politician and close friend to jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Friday said Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani has played a key role in negotiating peace between the PKK and Ankara.

It's not unthinkable that whoever the constituency is for YPG or SDF has distanced themselves from PKK. So, I don't think it's a derivative. It's another organization,' Tom Barrack tells Anadolu - Ana

SULAIMANIYAH (Iraq) (AFP) – Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq.