After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

Since the leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party, Devlet Bahçeli, issued his call in October 2024 to disband the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and disarm it in exchange for the release of ...

2. Abdullah Öcalan: Rebel without arms The PKK founder’s call to his supporters to lay down weapons and dissolve the organisation opens the possibility of bringing the 40-year conflict between ...

Two days after three civilians were found dead in a river in Kathua, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has alleged that there have been attempts to “politicise” the deaths. He also voiced his surprise at ...

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 ...

Öcalan’s statement set off a chain of events, each carrying profound political and military implications. Pro-Kurdish Turkish legislators publicly read his message, emphasizing that the PKK no longer ...

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms In an unprecedented move, Abdullah Öcalan has urged the militant Kurdistan ...

Fairy tales also read like this: Like a cursed jewel, Abdullah Öcalan was flown through the night to a lonely island in the Sea of Marble, and abandoned behind great walls guarded by dragons. For 10 ...

On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan — observed by most of Turkey’s Sunni population — the imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan ...

Between Abdullah Öcalan’s latest message and the Syrian National Dialogue Conference, Syrian Kurds find themselves grappling with complex questions, lingering fears, and an uncertain political future.

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 ...

Pinar Dinc is the principal investigator of the ECO-Syria project, which receives funding from the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for ...