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 ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the ...

Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan called on Thursday for the Kurdish militant group to hold a congress to decide laying down arms and dissolving itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul.

Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to disarm as part of a fresh bid to end a decades-long conflict with the Turkish state. In a message from his prison on an ...

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 ...

By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has called on his fighters to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...