Excerpts: IANS: How do you look at the implications of Abdullah Ocalan's recent call for the PKK to disarm and dissolve? Is it a call which is given under duress, or, is this something else?

The minister's remarks follow the PKK's March 1 announcement of a unilateral ceasefire after a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan. On Feb. 27, Ocalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999 ...

(AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) Kurdish residents hold flags showing Abdullah Ocalan as they attend a gathering to see live a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation ...

However, they have yet to receive any response from the authorities. The isolation measures imposed at Imralı Prison remain in place, with leader Abdullah Ocalan reportedly being denied his basic ...

His remarks came two weeks after Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), urged his fighters to disarm and disband, ending a decades-long insurgency that has claimed tens ...

The Zenobia Women’s Gathering organized a special cultural event at the Cultural Center Hall in the city center of Raqqa to highlight the content of Leader Abdullah Ocalan’s message to women on March ...

Since the leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party, Devlet Bahçeli, issued his call in October 2024 to disband the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and disarm it in exchange for the release ...

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The minister's remarks follow the PKK's March 1 announcement of a unilateral ceasefire after a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan. On Feb. 27, Ocalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999, ...