Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
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 ...
There has been a major development in an armed conflict that has raged for decades between Turkey and a Turkish Kurdish group. The group's founder has called for followers to disarm and dissolve.
The jailed leader of Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has made a historic call for the party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long ...
The comments by Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were read at a news conference in Istanbul by Kurdish lawmakers and leaders who met with Ocalan earlier Thursday.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country. Over time ...
Ocalan's letter was read out on big screens in Diyarbakir and other mainly Kurdish cities Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay ...
The gambit could give the Turkish president a chance to extend his power, while also calming a conflict that threatens to undermine the new Syrian government. By Carlotta Gall By seeking a peace ...
After nearly 50 years of conflict, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has called for peace. Could this be the end of Turkey’s longest ...
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