Among those who hit the street to protest the killing of the Marxist leader was Abdullah Öcalan, a 24-year-old graduate from Ankara University. He was arrested and charged with distributing a ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...

(Photos: Evrim Deniz) In Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish-populated city, people began gathering early around Dağkapı Square yesterday, eagerly awaiting PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s statement ...

Following Abdullah Öcalan’s call for disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Syrian Kurdish leaders said the statement doesn't concern Kurdish-led groups controlling the country's north and ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband.

On February 27, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, made an important call for his party and all affiliated organizations to lay down arms and for the ...

Abdullah Öcalan, who is in his mid-70s, is the leader and founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. He also called for the group to disband and for its allied factions ...

The German Foreign Office responded positively to the appeal by the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down arms as part of peace efforts with Turkey.

The message from Abdullah Öcalan — delivered by members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy party (Dem), Turkey’s second-biggest opposition group — urged members of his ...

Flags bearing the images of Abdullah Ocalan, founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), are waved during a protest organized by the Kurdish community in Rome marking the 26th ...