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The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring ...
Many of Turkey’s Kurds view Mr. Ocalan as a potent symbol of the struggle for Kurdish rights. And despite his imprisonment, ...
The Kurdish insurgent group PKK in Turkey says it will lay down its arms and disband after a decades-long fight that killed ...
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said Tuesday that Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder, Abdullah Ocalan, ...
The Kurdish militant group has led an armed insurgency since 1984 that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
A "major paradigm shift" is required to mend fractured ties between Turkey and its Kurdish minority after the PKK's historic disarmament move, jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan said Sunday.
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...
The PKK announced that it had held a congress in Iraqi Kurdistan, most likely to decide on disbanding after its leader's call ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced Monday that it is dissolving itself in a ...
The PKK announced on Monday that it was disbanding after yearlong talks between Turkey's government and the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who declared in February that armed struggle ...
A military coup in Turkey forces much of the PKK to flee to neighboring countries such as Syria and Lebanon, where the ...
Sulaimaniyah (Iraq) (AFP) – The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any ...