Who Is the P.K.K. Leader Abdullah Ocalan?
The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has ...
Who is Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish militant leader urging peace with Turkey?
The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers ...
What to Know About Abdullah Ocalan and the Turkey-P.K.K. Conflict
After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned ...
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Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey tells his movement to disarm and dissolve
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 ...
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Ocalan’s Call is a Golden Opportunity for Turks
Some even suggest that the Turkish President will likely use Ocalan’s call as a way to persuade Kurdish voters to support a ...
Kurdish leader Ocalan issues message from prison, urging PKK to disarm to make peace with Turkey
Pro-Kurdish politicians have met with the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as part of renewed peace ...
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Ocalan: Kurdish PKK founder who urged his fighters to disarm
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 ...
U.S. News & World Report13d
Who Is Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish Militant Leader Urging Peace With Turkey?
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 ...