ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent ... in northern Iraq where the PKK is based. Ocalan was born to a peasant family in the southeastern village ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Who Is Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish Militant Leader ... Today, the conflict is mainly centred in northern Iraq where the PKK is based. Ocalan was born to a peasant family in the southeastern ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah ... the full text of Ocalan's message: Call for Peace and Democratic Society PKK was born on the ground ...

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 ...