ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his ... since 2003 as prime minister and later as president, to run for office again unless an early election is called ...

If the PKK leadership heeds its founder's call to ... while peace would also remove a constant flashpoint in Kurdish-run, oil-rich northern Iraq, where the PKK set up its base two decades ago.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his ... since 2003 as prime minister and later as president, to run for office again unless an early election is called ...

The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

Kurdish Leader Ocalan Issues Message From Prison ... who has been in power since 2003 as prime minister and later as president, to run for office again unless an early election is called ...

The group's leadership is widely ... freed from its shackles,” the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Ala as saying. In Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari, an Iraqi-Kurdish politician who served as foreign ...

(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group ... since 2003 as prime minister and later as president, to run for ...