The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more ... or show any expression of nationalism. Despite Ocalan’s authoritarian rule, his charisma and positioning as a champion ...

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source ...

a spokeswoman for the People’s Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM. The PKK held a congress between May 5-7 in two locations in northern Iraq, according to a report Friday by the Firat News ...

"I respectfully salute the decisions taken at the (PKK's) historic 12th congress," Ocalan said in a message transmitted by the pro-Kurdish DEM party, which played a key role in facilitating ...

The move followed a call in February by the group's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, for it to disband. The PKK insurgency initially aimed to create an independent homeland for Kurds, who account ...