Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), met with family members on the occasion of ...

The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Turkish authorities have arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on Monday that their jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan should be involved in all ...

Abdullah Öcalan. Speaking on Stêrk TV on Mar 13, Bayık, a co-chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council, said the conditions for holding a PKK congress, as called for by Öcalan, ...

The consequences of the call by the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, for the group to disband are still reverberating – not just in Turkiye but also in the wider ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down ...

The PKK had “reached the end of its lifespan ... long civil war could be brought to an end. While growing up, Abdullah Öcalan’s hero was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkiye.

The declaration last week by imprisoned PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) leader Abdullah Ocalan of a ceasefire in his movement’s long insurgency against Turkey is a significant moment, deriving from ...

Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...