Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

A group of Kurdish fighters are set to lay down their weapons “in the coming few days” in the next stage of a long-awaited ...

Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan still holds great sway among Kurds across the region — Delil SOULEIMAN Militants from the PKK will begin laying down their weapons at a disarmament ceremony in Iraqi ...

Kurdish leader Ocalan told the PKK to disband, it did: Here’s what to know. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is leading peace efforts to end a Kurdish armed rebellion against Turkiye after four decades.

When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long ...

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

Abdullah Öcalan and the PKK have made it clear that the decision to dissolve the organisation does not herald an end, but a ...

This is all you need to know about why Ocalan and the PKK have given up their armed struggle. Who is Abdullah Ocalan? Ocalan was born to a poor Kurdish farming family on April 4, 1948, in Omerli ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society.After a decades-long insurgency ...