Since the leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party, Devlet Bahçeli, issued his call in October 2024 to disband the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and disarm it in exchange for the release ...

In a statement on the affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF), the group's leadership said it would follow Ocalan's orders, issued from his prison in ... war against Turkey since 1984, initially ...

Öcalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999 in Imrali Island prison, put his message in the starkest terms ... The PKK is classified as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the EU, and has ...

Ocalan was arrested in 1999 and is serving a life sentence in a prison in northwest Turkey, but he's still seen as the movement's ideological leader. The reading of his letter was broadcast on ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant ... new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey's government that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. In a message from ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called ... conflict with Turkey’s government that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. In a message from his prison on an island ...