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 ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

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 ...

Abdullah Öcalan, who is in his mid-70s, is the leader and founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. He also called for the group to disband and for its allied factions ...

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 ...

"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.