The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers ...

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

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The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish ... The comments by Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were read at a news conference in Istanbul by Kurdish ...

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve ...

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 ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has called for the organization to disarm and dissolve. This ...

Turkey on Thursday insisted the PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm and disband "immediately", a week after a ...

PKK declares ceasefire and disarmament following Ocalan's call, potentially ending 40-year insurgency against Turkey.