Voices I am starving myself until Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan is taken out of solitary confinement. Since late spring 2015, he has been held by Turkey under total isolation from the outside world.

PKK's imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan (middle) and DEM Party delegation on İmralı Island, Thursday, February 27, 2025. [Photo: DEMGenelMerkezi on X/Twitter] ...

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan delivered a letter to his attorneys in a meeting they held on June 18 at the İmralı prison, five days before the İstanbul election rerun. But the ...

Istanbul (dpa) — Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to abandon their armed struggle against the Turkish ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...

Öcalan supporters end hunger strike 05/26/2019 May 26, 2019. Thousands of inmates in Turkish prisons and politicians have ended their hunger strike, after a call from jailed Kurdish rebel leader ...

Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan indicated in a statement issued on Sunday that he would be prepared to contribute positively to a "new paradigm" initiated by ...

The Facebook Oversight Board issued a decision saying Instagram erroneously removed a post criticizing the solitary confinement of Abdullah Öcalan, a founding member of the militant Kurdistan ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen. Ömer Öcalan reveals details of his October meeting with Kurdish leader ...

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, the lawyers of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, have gone to İmralı Prison to meet him after 20 days. In their last meeting on May 2, his lawyers could meet Öcalan ...

Bringing together Öcalan’s ideas in one slim volume for the first time, The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan contains a selection of his most influential writings over his lifetime. These ideas ...