Turkiye's peace process with Kurdish militants faces uncertainty, with potential to boost stability or fuel conflict.

Jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Monday received his cousin, Omer Ocalan, at Turkey’s Imrali ...

"I salute our people for embracing the Call for Peace and a Democratic Society with great enthusiasm on Newroz. Once again, I ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), met with family members on the occasion of ...

The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

President Masoud Barzani said on Friday that he hopes jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abullah Ocalan is released ...

a milestone that Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), reached in 2024. In October 2024, Bahceli suggested that Ocalan could be released from his Imrali Island ...

The other interesting comparison is that Kurds have long likened Abdullah Ocalan in prison on Imrali Island to Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned on Robben Island. They both started out as radicals who ...

The system of torture and extermination in Imrali continues, and leader Abdullah Ocalan remains deprived of his rights even as a detainee. Today, the lawyers from the Al-Asr Human Rights Office, Suzan ...

open image in gallery People hold Kurdistan Workers Party flag and pictures of its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan as they celebrate the signing of the deal, in Qamishli, Syria, on 11 March 2025 ...

Ankara has long viewed the SDF as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), whose imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan last month called for the group he founded to disarm and disband.