By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has called on his fighters to ...

Ocalan’s appeal may mark a turning point in the decades-long conflict between the PKK and Turkey, a struggle that has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past 40 years. In a ...

ISTANBUL - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish state to ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...

heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for disarmament, in a major step toward ending a 40-year insurgency against the Turkish state. Ocalan on Thursday (February 27, 2025) called on the ...

The Kurdish group said in a statement that any congress for dissolution must include the jailed leader An Iraqi Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the founder of the ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Ocalan, issued an order on Thursday for the group he founded to disband and disarm. His announcement was largely welcomed by Turkish political ...

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group, Abdullah Ocalan, this week called for the PKK to disband. Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has declared it will implement a ceasefire with Turkiye, heeding a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan to disarm. The statement by the outlawed group ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with ...