After nearly 50 years of bloodshed, a historic shift may be underway in Turkey. Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has publicly called for the group to lay ...

“The first step of the process is over, even though some of my demands have not been realized. We are transitioning to the second step. I have 50 percent hope,” PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan said to his ...

Held in İmralı Prison, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan for the first time after 21 years. The other three inmates imprisoned in İmralı have also talked to their ...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, deputies of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), met on December 28 with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who ...

Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 15, 1999. Now, writing from isolation in Turkey’s Imrali ...

A person waves a flag bearing the picture of Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Oecalan during a celebration marking the Kurdish New Year "Newroz" in Frankfurt. Andreas ...

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. As ...

Hostilities between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK has escalated, while the group's leader, Abdullah Ocalan, remains imprisoned for life. Reuters The name Abdullah Öcalan may not sound ...

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 out by ...

Prominent Australians have joined the global call on the government of Turkey to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, reports Peter Boyle. Kurdish community calls for freedom for political prisoner ...

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