Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a historic moment ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party , last month called on his group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle against Turkey. But Ankara also ...

Ankara has long viewed the SDF as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), whose imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan last month called for the group he founded to disarm and disband.

(AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) Kurdish residents hold flags showing Abdullah Ocalan as they attend a gathering to see live a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation ...

Since Turkish Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli launched his call in October 2024 for the disbandment and disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in exchange for the release ...

The Iraqi Initiative for Ocalan Freedom issued a statement to the public on the occasion of International Women's Day, stating: "On March 8, the world celebrates International Women's Day, a day in ...

Global analyses and reports today addressed the impacts of leader Abdullah Ocalan's call on the region and Dutch lawmakers' criticism of the European Union's statements regarding the ongoing violence ...

He specifically pointed to the recent call from Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK, as evidence that the organization must lay down its arms, dissolve itself, and surrender its weapons ...

Speaking during a preparatory Newroz ceremony in Diyarbakir on Tuesday, Bakirhan underscored the significance of Abdullah Ocalan’s recent call and linked it to ongoing political developments in Syria.

Ocalan, revered by the pro-Kurdish political movement but reviled by most Turks for starting the conflict in 1984, made the call four months after being urged to do so by an ally of President ...