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    Abdullah Öcalan - Wikipedia
    Born4 April 1949 · Ömerli, Turkey
    CitizenshipTurkey
    EducationFaculty of Political Science, Ankara University
    SpouseKesire Yıldırım (m. 1978)
    Early life and education

    Öcalan was born in Ömerli, a village in Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province in eastern Turkey. While some sources report his date of birth as 4 April 1949, no official birth records exist. He has claimed not to know exactly when he w… See more

    The Kurdistan Workers' Party

    In 1978, in the midst of the right- and left-wing conflicts which culminated in the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, Öcalan founded the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). In July 1979 he fled to Syria.
    Since its fo… See more

    Exile in Europe

    Öcalan left Syria on 9 October 1998 and for the next four months, he toured several European countries advocating for a solution of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Öcalan first went to Russia where the Russian pa… See more

    Abduction, trial, and imprisonment

    Öcalan was abducted in Kenya on 15 February 1999, while on his way from the Greek embassy to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligenc… See more

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