Istanbul (dpa) — Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to abandon their armed struggle against the Turkish ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good.

"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.

Source: Jacobin. Co-published with permission. Abdullah Öcalan’s Isolation May Be Coming to an End Photo of Kurdistan Workers Party supporters in London, April 2003 ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen. Ömer Öcalan reveals details of his October meeting with Kurdish leader ...

“He told us that he would take his hands off from peace process if it goes like this,” Abdullah Öcalan’s uncle Süleyman Arslan said after meeting PKK leader on Imrali Island. PKK leader Abdullah ...

The HIndu profiles on Abdullah Öcalan, former PKK leader, calls for peace and dissolution of the group after decades of conflict in Turkiye.

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan indicated in a statement issued on Sunday that he would be prepared to contribute positively to a "new paradigm" initiated by ...

Voices I am starving myself until Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan is taken out of solitary confinement Since late spring 2015, he has been held by Turkey under total isolation from the outside ...

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday ...

Sarah Glynn looks at the brutal crackdown on Kurds and other minorities and activists since the Israeli-United States bombings of Iran. Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an ...