Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on the group he founded to lay down its arms and disband in a historic statement shared by pro-Kurdish ...

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 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.

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 ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan’s latest message has divided public opinion, with some viewing it as a necessary step toward peace while others expressing skepticism about its ...

Imprisoned militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday announced a call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to dissolve itself. The PKK leader's message was conveyed after a meeting with senior ...

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 ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of ... state of Kurdistan after dropping out of Ankara University's political science faculty.

But Bayram Balci, an analyst at the Sciences Po Paris university, said that was unlikely given threats of vengeance against Ocalan following four decades of violence that cost more than 40,000 lives.

The Kurdish group said in a statement that any congress for dissolution must include the jailed leader An Iraqi Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the founder of the ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Monday rejected the ...