Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his rebel militant group lay down its arms and disband in a momentous announcement that could bring an end to a bloody decades-long conflict with ...

Supporters of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish PKK group, hold up a poster depicting his face, in Diyarbakir, Turkiye, on February 27, 2025 [Metin Yoksu/AP Photo] Abdullah Ocalan, the ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has appeared on a video urging his group to move toward peace. It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to ...

Feb. 27 (UPI) --Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party known as PKK, sent a letter calling for the group to disarm and dissolve to make peace with Turkey. "I am making a ...

The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has called for his group to disarm and disband. By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...