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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan’s latest message has divided public opinion, with some viewing it as a necessary step toward peace while others expressing skepticism about its ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISTANBUL: Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul.

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 ...