Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six siblings in a mixed Turkish-Kurdish peasant family in Omerli, a village in Turkey's southeast. His mother tongue is Turkish. He became a left-wing ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a ... in northern Iraq where the PKK is based. Ocalan was born to a peasant family in the southeastern village ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan ... identity and restricted Kurdish rights and freedoms. "The PKK was born in the 20th century, in the most violent epoch of the history ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a historic moment ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan ... Ocalan’s statement continued: “The PKK was born in the 20th century, in the most violent epoch of the history of humanity, amidst ...

In a one-and-a-half-page statement, Ocalan explained that armed struggle against the state was once necessary due to policies that denied Kurdish identity and restricted Kurdish rights and freedoms.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant ... complex relationship with the Kurds into the spotlight. Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six siblings in a mixed Turkish-Kurdish ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers ... thrusting Turkey's complex relationship with the Kurds into the spotlight. Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six ...