Among those who hit the street to protest the killing of the Marxist leader was Abdullah Öcalan, a 24-year-old graduate from Ankara University. He was arrested and charged with distributing a ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...

Abdullah Öcalan. Speaking on Stêrk TV on Mar 13, Bayık, a co-chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council, said the conditions for holding a PKK congress, as called for by Öcalan, ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read out by ...

In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband.

I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish guerrilla, on Thursday, 27 February. This could be the last chance for ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan ... for the White House National ...

Members of the DEM Party delegation who visited Öcalan in prison. A recent survey by Areda Survey found that 57.5% of the public in Turkey viewed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the group to ...

Abdullah Öcalan, who is in his mid-70s, is the leader and founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. He also called for the group to disband and for its allied factions ...