"It can't carry out sophisticated attacks like it used to. Although there's still support and respect for Ocalan and the PKK... there is no support for the armed struggle as in the past," he added.

By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has called on his fighters to ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers ... the major Kurdish political parties and groups of the region like the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ...

What would Abdullah Ocalan say? When would he say it? How would it be delivered?The wait ended on Thursday afternoon, when Mr ...

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement ...

The group, founded by Ocalan in 1978, has led an insurgency in Turkey’s southeast since 1984. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. Previous peace ...

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

A few, like Baran Aydin, a 29-year-old Kurd who said he had been imprisoned for seven years for P.K.K.-related charges and had been released only a week ago, said they trusted Mr. Ocalan’s ...

Ocalan was captured by Turkish intelligence in Kenya in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment on İmralı Island, where he remains. ALBAWABA- Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan ...

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a ...

ISTANBUL — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey ...