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

Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for peace on Feb. 27 continues to influence public opinion. Civil ...

Some even suggest that the Turkish President will likely use Ocalan’s call as a way to persuade Kurdish voters to support a ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after ...

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon ...

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 pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with ...

Ocalan, 75, has been imprisoned on the island of Imrali, off Istanbul, since 1999, after being convicted of treason. Despite his incarceration, he continues to wield significant influence over the ...

On Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, it would mark ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a historic moment ...

ISTANBUL — (AP) — 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 ...