Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that a disarmament call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan ...

After decades of fighting, the Kurdish group’s imprisoned leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms.

Turkey's 40-year battle against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could be nearing an end after its jailed leader, Abdullah ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as ...

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.

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

Tayyip Erdogan’s long-held goal of ending Turkey’s conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief’s peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement ...

The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and ...

The PKK was established by Ocalan in 1978, initially seeking full independence and statehood for Turkey's large Kurdish minority, but later asking for autonomy. Since then, as many as 40,000 ...