Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked Thursday the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. In a historic call on Thursday ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The leader of the militant Kurdish separatist group PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, has called on the group to lay down its arms and dissolve. "As in the case with any modern community and party whose ...

A person waves a flag bearing the picture of Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Oecalan during a celebration marking the Kurdish New Year "Newroz" in Frankfurt. Andreas ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group, on Saturday declared a cease-fire with Turkey, following a call from its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, to disarm and ...

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms In an unprecedented move, Abdullah Öcalan has urged the militant Kurdistan ...

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.