Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of ...

Ocalan’s momentous announcement is part of ... Mazlum Tenha, a lawyer, also voiced support for the call to disarm. “If the founder of this movement is making this call, we will show our ...

Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm sparked relief but also fears for the future among Kurds in ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan urges PKK to disarm and disband as part of peace effort with Turkey.

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan ...

whether PKK-affiliated Kurdish fighters in Syria would disarm, or how quickly Turkey’s government, which has resisted any suggestion it is cutting a deal with Ocalan or the PKK, would offer ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist ...

There was no immediate statement from the PKK's leadership on Ocalan's letter, but his call to disarm had been anticipated, and in a statement published by the group on February 12, the PKK hailed ...