In February, jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the group he founded to lay down arms and dissolve itself after more than four decades of war with Turkey. His statement was issued amid ...

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 ...

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 Need for Practical Steps and Tangible Support As is well known, Leader Abdullah Ocalan, through the delegation that met with him, issued a historic call on February 27, which can be described as ...

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighters who congratulated Leader Abdullah Ocalan on Newroz this year and welcomed Newroz in the spirit of March 8 spoke to ANHA ...

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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, ...

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? Michael ...

Ocalan, revered by the pro-Kurdish political movement but reviled by most Turks for starting the conflict in 1984, made the call four months after being urged to do so by an ally of President ...