Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor and a leading opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been formally arrested ...

Last month, the PKK declared a ceasefire in response to jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for disarmament, marking a big ...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the government's purported effort to boost ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down ...

Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – designated a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies – has called on the group to lay down arms and dissolve. His ...

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.

Blast from the past In arguments reminiscent of his 1999 courtroom trial in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment, Ocalan contended that the conditions for the PKK’s continuation — including the ...

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) announced a new roadmap to peace following the call of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan for his group to disarm.

On Thursday, February 27, 2025, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), called in a statement on the group’s members to disband and lay down their arms. He made ...

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 ...