In a historic move, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called for the group to disarm, paving the way for a new ...

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon ...

The HIndu profiles on Abdullah Öcalan, former PKK leader, calls for peace and dissolution of the group after decades of ...

Ankara wants a success story without Western oversight.

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter ...

and destabilized Turkey and the wider Middle East. Abdullah Öcalan, who is in his mid-70s, is the leader and founder of the ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday announced a ceasefire with Turkey, two days after its jailed leader ...

Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish ...

Despite having a positive opinion about Öcalan's call, the respondents remain skeptical about whether the PKK will disarm.

Tehran’s recent setbacks have paved the way for Ankara’s ascent. The Ankara-backed Azerbaijan’s triumph over Tehran-backed ...

Making peace with the PKK could also lead to a big advance in Erdogan’s mission to stabilise Syria under a friendly new ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has urged his followers to lay down ...