The HIndu profiles on Abdullah Öcalan, former PKK leader, calls for peace and dissolution of the group after decades of ...

In a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband. He ...

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon demands for Kurdish statehood, self-determination, autonomy, and even ...

The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is ...

There’s a reason to be sceptical about Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace. Efforts to end the fighting in 1993, 1995-1996, and ...

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday.

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a surprising call for his supporters ...

Commenting on the call made by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on February 27, senior PKK official Mustafa Karasu stated, "We will ...

Ankara wants a success story without Western oversight.

The German Foreign Office responded positively to the appeal by the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, to lay down arms as part of peace efforts with Turkey.

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...