On Thursday, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) called on his organisation to lay down their arms and ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read by Turkey's ...

Ocalan’s call comes as value of armed fight diminishes, and Kurdish political participation grew – will this continue?

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) TURK: (Speaking Kurdish). ARRAF: "All groups must lay down their arms and the PKK dissolve itself." That was the message from Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the ...

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is a Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. It is classified as a ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

Political talk without the boring parts ... rejects (5:53); the US is negotiating directly with Hamas (10:30); the PKK declares a ceasefire in Turkey (13:24); fighting breaks out on the border ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...