By Ben Hubbard Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has called on his fighters to ...

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers ... the major Kurdish political parties and groups of the region like the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ...

"It can't carry out sophisticated attacks like it used to. Although there's still support and respect for Ocalan and the PKK... there is no support for the armed struggle as in the past," he added.

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

ISTANBUL — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey's ...

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...

Ocalan’s appeal may mark a turning point in the decades-long conflict between the PKK and Turkey, a struggle that has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past 40 years. In a ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the ... he was the sole inmate at Imrali prison – an Alcatraz-like island south of the Sea of Marmara. He has since had ...

The overture by Abdullah Ocalan is part of a peace effort at a time of heightened instability and fundamental changes reshaping the region. These include the reconfiguration of power in Syria ...

"It can't carry out sophisticated attacks like it used to. Although there's still support and respect for Ocalan and the PKK... there is no support for the armed struggle as in the past," he added. - ...