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The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has called for his group to disarm and disband. By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan ...
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. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. After a decades-long insurgency ...
France24 (Video) Ocalan calls for PKK to drop weapons, be dissolved. Posted: February 27, 2025 | Last updated: February 27, 2025. Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his ...
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, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on the group he founded to lay down its arms and disband in a historic statement shared by pro-Kurdish ...
Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish Militant Leader Who Urged Peace With Turkey By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The 76-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in ...
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 ...
In February, the PKK’s jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called on his group to convene a congress to dissolve itself and disarm to end the conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives ...
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.
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society.