Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan ...

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should hold a congress and decide to disband.

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on ... arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison. The White House praised the call for peace ...

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul ... The DEM party has long pressed for greater democracy in Turkey, rights for the country’s Kurdish population and to improve conditions ...

Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party known as PLK, sent a letter calling for the group to disarm and dissolve to make peace with Turkey.

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul ... Call for greater democracy in Turkey The peace effort comes at a time when Erdogan may need support from the DEM party in parliament ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Istanbul, Turkey ...

By Safak Timur and Carlotta Gall The Kurdish guerrilla group that has been fighting a long-running insurgency against Turkey declared ... who has been in a Turkish prison for a quarter-century ...