Istanbul (AFP) – Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. In a ...

Ocalan's capture in exile on February 15, 1999, shocked his supporters A mural in northern Syria showing Kurdish fighters with a flag bearing Ocalan's face For many Kurds, Ocalan is a hero whom ...

Turkey's wide-scale use of combat drones has pushed most Kurdish fighters into northern Syria and Iraq, where Ankara has continued its raids.

In a historic call on Thursday, Ocalan called for his PKK to be dissolved and its fighters to lay down their arms in a major step towards ending the decades-long conflict with the Turkish state.