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"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.

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

Ocalan on Thursday (February 27, 2025) called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve, a move that President Tayyip Erdogan's government and the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party have voiced ...

The Kurdish group said in a statement that any congress for dissolution must include the jailed leader An Iraqi Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the founder of the ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) ISTANBUL - Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read ...

Ocalan, 75, has been held in an island prison off Istanbul since 1999. Edited by: Louis Oelofse and Alex Berry Timothy Jones Writer, translator and editor with DW's online news team.

“The responsibility for this is on me. I want ... Therefore, like its counterparts, it has reached the end of its lifespan, making its dissolution necessary,” Ocalan said.

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said that the PKK should hold a congress and decide to disband. Now 75, Ocalan has been held in solitary confinement since 1999 on Imrali ...

In the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in the southeast, where around 3,000 people had gathered at a square to listen to an audio broadcast of Ocalan's call, some broke into spontaneous ...