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 fight for a ...

DEM Party, will embark on a series of meetings with political parties, starting with the Republican People’s Party (CHP).

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of ...

By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish ... After his capture in 1999, he was incarcerated on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, south of Istanbul, where he was ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK, is seen with politicians and lawmakers of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in Imrali ...

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on ... by pro-Kurdish party politicians who visited Ocalan on Imrali island earlier in the day. Ocalan’s momentous ...