Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the 75-year-old imprisoned founding member of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on February 27 sought to bring an end to the insurgent organisation’s four-decade-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.

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight ...

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.

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with ...

Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week after jailed militant leader Abdullah ...

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 ...

In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Ocalan said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should hold a congress and decide to disband. “Convene your congress and make a ...