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 ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish ...

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...

Ocalan is a hero whom they refer to as 'Apo' or 'uncle' Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of Abdullah Ocalan, who set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1978 Abdullah ...

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 ...

Who Is Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish Militant Leader Urging Peace With Turkey? By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. In a historic call on Thursday ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the ...