as lawmakers from Turkey’s largest pro-Kurdish DEM Party took turns reading Ocalan’s orders to his outlawed PKK — first in Kurdish and then in Turkish — before an audience that included Kurdish ...

The senior researcher additionally anticipated that Ocalan might monitor the upcoming PKK congress from his secluded prison on Imrali Island, northwest of Turkey, and that Demirtas might be ...

Advertisement PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan called for the cease-fire while still imprisoned in Turkey. "I am making ... sentenced him to life in prison for treason and only allowed him to have ...

Ocalan’s unprecedented statement on February 27 urging the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm and disband raised hopes among Turkey’s Kurdish citizens that Turkish President Recep ...

Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, front, center, poses with Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) delegation members at the Imrali island prison in Bursa, Turkey, on Thursday. Photo: ...

ANKARA - Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

ANKARA, March 6 (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark ... After several meetings with Ocalan at his island prison, the pro-Kurdish DEM party relayed his appeal ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey ... Ocalan’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison.

(AP Photo/Metin Yoksu) ISTANBUL (AP) -- Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey ... his island prison. In its statement, the PKK's executive committee said Ocalan's call ...