Sources: BBC
The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. 2025-03-1
Jailed Kurdish leader and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan calls for an end to the conflict with Turkey and asks the group to disarm and disband, amid peace efforts between the Turkish government and the PKK led by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. 2025-02-27
Turkish security sources claim that 80% of Kurdish-held positions in the city of Manbij in Aleppo Governorate have been taken by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army. 2024-12-8
Turkish Armed Forces claims that it has killed three Kurdistan Workers' Party fighters in air strikes in southeastern Turkey near the borders with Iraq. 2016-09-1
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) warns Turkey it is preparing to intensify its fight. 2016-04-25
Twelve Turkish academics are detained for signing a declaration opposing military action against Kurdistan Workers Party forces in southeast Turkey. 2016-01-15
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says military operations will continue in southeast Turkey and vowed that Kurdish rebels (PKK) along with their supporters, “will be buried in the trenches they have dug”. The state-run Anadolu Agency reports at least 115 PKK militants have been killed since December 15. 2015-12-21
A suicide attack by the PKK kills two Turkish Army soldiers and injures 24 others in the Turkish town of Doğubeyazıt in Ağrı Province near the Iran border. 2015-08-2
More than 150 people, including 12 mayors and some politicians, go on trial for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey. 2010-10-18
Six Turkish soldiers are killed in a rocket attack on a navy base by suspected Kurdish rebels in the south of the country. 2010-05-31