Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

Now, the group’s imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on Kurdish fighters to lay down their arms and they have declared a cease-fire. It is still unclear, however, whether 40 years of ...

Revelers danced in the street in the city of Qamishli and waved flags featuring Ocalan’s portrait alongside the Kurdish flag. “We welcome the historic announcement by Leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

Feb. 27 (UPI) --Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party known as PKK, sent a letter calling for the group to disarm and dissolve to make peace with Turkey. "I am making ...

The “messengers” of Abdullah Ocalan, the long-imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on February 27 called a surprise press conference after visiting the 75-year-old on ...

PARIS – Imprisoned in Turkey for 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan remains revered as a living god by a significant portion of the 40 million Kurds in the Middle East. For that reason, he's also feared ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...

Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have far ...

Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have far ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed ...