The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has ...

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan ...

Among those who hit the street to protest the killing of the Marxist leader was Abdullah Öcalan, a 24-year-old graduate from Ankara University. He was arrested and charged with distributing a ...

In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband.

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

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 ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a historic moment ...

"Of course, our situation is powerful," reads the placard, a quote from Öcalan. (Photos: Evrim Deniz) In Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish-populated city, people began gathering early around Dağkapı ...

The German Foreign Office responded positively to the appeal by the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down arms as part of peace efforts with Turkey.