News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
The PKK militants left their refuge in the Qandil mountains and were joined by 26 other Kurds, including refugees from a camp in Iraq, before entering Turkey. They were met near Silopi by a Turkish judge and five prosecutors to determine whether they...
News Source: Zaman.com
| about 1 month ago
PKK move marks critical threshold in laying down arms The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) turned over a group of its members to Turkish authorities yesterday at the Habur border gate, a groundbreaking move that may lead to the disarmament of...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Turkey — Thousands of Turkish Kurds gathered Monday near the border with Iraq to welcome a small group of Kurdish rebels planning to cross into Turkey to support government plans for peace. Lawmaker Sabahat Tuncel said 34 Kurds would cross the...
News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
A group of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas is expected to surrender to Turkish military forces tomorrow in a gesture of support for Turkey’s Kurdish initiative, a PKK official said late on Saturday. Eight fighters from a PKK camp in the...