The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on ...
Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish Militant Leader Who Urged Peace With Turkey By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The 76-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail ...
Supporters of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish PKK group, hold up a poster depicting his face, in Diyarbakir, Turkiye, on February 27, 2025 [Metin Yoksu/AP Photo] Abdullah Ocalan, the ...
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Why Abdullah Ocalan’s call to disarm the PKK will have ramifications across the region
Speculation has been rife in Turkey for weeks about an anticipated statement from the jailed leader of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). What would Abdullah Ocalan say? When would he say it? How would ...
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his rebel militant group lay down its arms and disband in a momentous announcement that could bring an end to a bloody decades-long conflict with ...
A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday. As ...
The latest of Ocalan’s messages,** ‘calls for a ceasefire’, are good news. It offers great hope and opportunity not just for the Kurdish community in Turkey, but also in fact for all communities there ...
The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place as a first ...
Ocalan’s appeal may mark a turning point in the decades-long conflict between the PKK and Turkey, a struggle that has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past 40 years. In a ...
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Turkey transferred five prisoners to the detention facility on Imrali Island housing Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. Justice officials have ...
THE kidnapping of the Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, has shaken Greece's centre-left government as much as it has uplifted Turkey's. On February 18th, Greece's foreign minister, Theodoros ...
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