This is all you need to know about why Ocalan and the PKK have given up their armed struggle. Who is Abdullah Ocalan? Ocalan was born to a poor Kurdish farming family on April 4, 1948, in Omerli ...

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, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the ...

Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) delegation makes a press statement about the "Abdullah Ocalan's call for the PKK to lay down arms" in Istanbul, Turkey on February 27, 2025, after ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his PKK militant group to lay down arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end its conflict with Turkey.

ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Turkey's 40-year battle against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could be nearing an end after its jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called on the militant group on ...

Abdullah Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, regional leaders react Regional leaders welcome calls for the PKK to lay down arms and dissolve. By REUTERS FEBRUARY 27, 2025 16:25 Updated: FEBRUARY 28 ...

Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has killed an estimated 40,000 people.

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, jailed 25 years ago, is again a focus of attention in Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally raised the possibility of his release in ...

Kurdish leader Ocalan told the PKK to disband, it did: Here’s what to know. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is leading peace efforts to end a Kurdish armed rebellion against Turkiye after four decades.