On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the 1999 trial of Kurdish dissident leader Abdullah Ocalan was “unfair.” Ocalan had been detained on the island of İmralı in the ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any future talks after a decision ...

Held in İmralı Prison, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, Ömer Hayri Konar, Veysi Aktaş and Hamili Yıldırım have been banned from meeting their attorneys for six months. The court has banned imprisoned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan on Saturday urged his followers to end a three-decade armed uprising in Turkey, reiterating his call from February in a move that fell short of both the ...

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 one man Turkey hates above all others is the same man it now approaches to try to end the Kurdish war, says the BBC's James Reynolds, profiling PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.

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 ...