Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant ... complex relationship with the Kurds into the spotlight. Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six siblings in a mixed Turkish-Kurdish ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a ... in northern Iraq where the PKK is based. Ocalan was born to a peasant family in the southeastern village ...

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 ...

In a one-and-a-half-page statement, Ocalan explained that armed struggle against the state was once necessary due to policies that denied Kurdish identity and restricted Kurdish rights and freedoms.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan ... Ocalan’s statement continued: “The PKK was born in the 20th century, in the most violent epoch of the history of humanity, amidst ...

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 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 ...

Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and ...