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

After the Kurdish PKK militant group’s founder Abdullah Ocalan urged it to disband, hopes of peace are rising – but the path to that goal will still be thorny, experts warn.

Among the uncertainties facing Syria is the future of U.S. involvement in the country. Since 2014, Washington has backed a de ...

The Kurdistan Region President noted that a message from PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, will be delivered ... American and European officials, as they told me, were very interested and it was ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers ... the major Kurdish political parties and groups of the region like the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ...

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 ...

A few, like Baran Aydin, a 29-year-old Kurd who said he had been imprisoned for seven years for P.K.K.-related charges and had been released only a week ago, said they trusted Mr. Ocalan’s ...

By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has called on his fighters to ...

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 ...

The group, founded by Ocalan in 1978, has led an insurgency in Turkey’s southeast since 1984. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. Previous peace ...