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 ...

The leading militant group in northern and eastern Syria near the Turkish border, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, better known as the PKK, declared a ceasefire following a call late last week from its ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants yesterday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, also known as Apo, asking the group to ...

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 ...

Ocalan as pictured, called on the PKK to lay down it's arms and dissolve, a move that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government supports.

The group's leader Abdullah Ocalan has been imprisoned on Imrali ... if he succeeded in getting the PKK to end its insurgency. Born to a peasant family in the southeastern village of Omerli ...

Imprisoned Turkish Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has commanded the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and dissolve, potentially ending a four-decade insurgency against Ankara that spilt into ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran welcomes Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the Kurdistan ... He said that the PKK was born during a time of restrictions on basic freedoms and denial of Kurdish identity ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century ... focused in urban southeastern areas. Ocalan was born to a peasant family in the southeastern village of Omerli and ...

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was expected to make a "historic declaration" on Thursday (February 27, 2025) on ending the decades-long conflict between Kurdish groups and the Turkish State.