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

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

What would Abdullah Ocalan say? When would he say it? How would it be delivered?The wait ended on Thursday afternoon, when Mr ...

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 ...

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...

Thursday's call from Abdullah Ocalan for the PKK to disarm and disband could potentially lead to ending a 40-year conflict ...

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 ...

Now, the group’s imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on Kurdish fighters to lay down their arms and they have declared a cease-fire. It is still unclear, however, whether 40 years of ...

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.

Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have ...

Who Is Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish Militant Leader Urging Peace With Turkey? By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century ...

ISTANBUL -- Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey's ...