heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for disarmament, in a major step toward ending a 40-year insurgency against the Turkish state. Ocalan on Thursday (February 27, 2025) called on the ...

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Istanbul (AFP) – Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed struggle has been widely hailed as a ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was expected to make a "historic declaration" on Thursday (February 27, 2025) on ending the decades-long conflict between Kurdish groups and the Turkish State.

Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan’s latest message has divided public opinion, with some viewing it as a necessary step toward peace while others expressing skepticism about its ...

Ocalan’s appeal may mark a turning point in the decades-long conflict between the PKK and Turkey, a struggle that has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past 40 years. In a ...

By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has called on his fighters to ...

ISTANBUL - The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish state to ...