Among those who hit the street to protest the killing of the Marxist leader was Abdullah Öcalan, a 24-year-old graduate from Ankara University. He was arrested and charged with distributing a ...

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.

A senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) figure, Cemil Bayık, has responded to remarks by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ...

eagerly awaiting PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s statement. The weather was warmer compared to previous days, with the sun shining brightly overhead. There was a Newroz-like excitement in the air. Some ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

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.

The leader of the militant Kurdish separatist group PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, has called on the group to lay down its arms and dissolve. "As in the case with any modern community and party whose ...

Abdullah Öcalan, who is in his mid-70s, is the leader and founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. He also called for the group to disband and for its allied factions ...

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms In an unprecedented move, Abdullah Öcalan has urged the militant Kurdistan ...

Flags bearing the images of Abdullah Ocalan, founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), are waved during a protest organized by the Kurdish community in Rome marking the 26th ...

And as with Mandela, many of Öcalan’s early targets were political rivals. The Kurdish struggle also has been exhausting, though Turkey’s oft-cited figures of 40,000 dead at the hands of the ...