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Why Abdullah Ocalan’s call to disarm the PKK will have ramifications across the regionWhat would Abdullah Ocalan say? When would he say it? How would it be delivered?The wait ended on Thursday afternoon, when Mr ...
In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should hold a congress and decide to disband. Recommended Videos “Convene your ...
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 ...
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 ...
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PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan calls on Kurdish group to disarm and dissolveAbdullah Ocalan, called on the group to disarm in a historic address on Thursday, in a development that could re-shape one of the longest running conflicts in the Middle East and points to shifting ...
Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...
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 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 ...
The overture by Abdullah Ocalan is part of a peace effort at a time of heightened instability and fundamental changes reshaping the region. These include the reconfiguration of power in Syria ...
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 ...
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 ...
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