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.

Mahir Çayan, a Stalinist and an admirer of the Cuban revolution, was the head of the People’s Liberation Party-Front of Turkiye in the early 1970s. In March 1972, Çayan and 10 of his comrades ...

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 ...

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 ...

After more than a quarter of a century in solitary confinement, Turkey allowed Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to issue a statement from prison calling for ...

The leader of the militant Kurdish separatist group PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, has called on the group to lay down its arms and dissolve. "As in the case with any modern community and party whose ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his militant group, the PKK, on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade-long conflict that has ...

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.

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms In an unprecedented move, Abdullah Öcalan has urged the militant Kurdistan ...