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Turkish lawmakers applaud after the bill is passed [Getty]

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Turkey MPs back historic law on reintegrating Kurdish militants

A bill offering limited amnesty to Kurdish PKK fighters has passed through the Turkish parliament and has been hailed as a key step towards peace

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

10 August, 2026

The New Arab Voice

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2025 in Review

Hugo Goodridge

23 December, 2025

Amed Malazgirt, a senior commander of the PKK, sits under a portrait of jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan, as he speaks during an interview with AFP in a cave network located in the Qandil Mountains on 29 November 2025.

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PKK urges Turkey to free Ocalan to advance peace process

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

30 November, 2025

Kurds protest of Abdullah Ocalan (Getty)

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Turkish MPs meet with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

25 November, 2025

Abdullah Ocalan has called for the PKK to end its armed struggle against Turkey

Turkey

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Turkish MPs to visit jailed PKK leader to further disarmament process

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

21 November, 2025

Abdullah Ocalan [Getty]

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PKK leader Ocalan urges progress in Turkish peace process

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

04 November, 2025

A demonstrator holds a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish armed organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), during the Newruz celebration.

Abdullah Ocalan

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PKK leader Ocalan allowed to meet lawyers, first time in 6 years

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

18 September, 2025

The New Arab Voice

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Erdogan Considers the Kurdish Question

Hugo Goodridge

09 August, 2025

July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day Commemoration ceremony

Turkey

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Turkey forms panel to oversee PKK disarmament

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

05 August, 2025

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Will the PKK's disarmament halt decades of bloodshed in Turkey?

Dana Taib Menmy

14 July, 2025

A masked Kurdish youth holds a poster of jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan during Newroz celebrations

Turkey

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Jailed PKK leader Ocalan says armed struggle with Turkey over

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

09 July, 2025

DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakirhan

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Pro-Kurdish MPs visit Ocalan as PKK to destroy arms

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

06 July, 2025

PKK fighters prepare mortar shells on the frontline of the battle against ISIS in Daquq, south of Kirkuk, Iraq, on October 23, 2014. (Photo by YOUNES MOHAMMAD/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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PKK in north Iraq to hand over weapons in first disarmament step

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

03 July, 2025

A demonstrator holds a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish armed organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), during the Newruz celebration.

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PKK urges Turkey to ease imprisonment of leader Ocalan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

21 May, 2025

Abdullah Ocalan [Getty]

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Ocalan: Turkey-Kurd ties needs 'paradigm shift' after PKK move

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

18 May, 2025

Zagros Hiwa

Kurdistan Workers Party

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What are the conditions for the PKK to disarm?

Dana Taib Menmy

15 May, 2025

PKK militants [AFP]

Kurdistan Workers Party

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PKK disbands after more than 40-year insurgency in Turkey

The New Arab Staff

12 May, 2025