Voices I am starving myself until Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan is taken out of solitary confinement. Since late spring 2015, he has been held by Turkey under total isolation from the outside world.

After nearly 50 years of conflict, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has called for peace. Could this be the end of Turkey’s longest war, or is more violence ahead? Let’s find out.

Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan indicated in a statement issued on Sunday that he would be prepared to contribute positively to a "new paradigm" initiated by ...

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan delivered a letter to his attorneys in a meeting they held on June 18 at the İmralı prison, five days before the İstanbul election rerun. But the ...

Öcalan has said that he is preparing a road map for the solution of the Kurdish question, and that he will announce it in August. Meanwhile, the armed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has extended its ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

In February, Öcalan argued that the PKK had outlived its original mission and called for it to dissolve itself. "I am making a call for the laying down of arms," he said in a message to his ...

Portrait of Abdullah Öcalan brandished at a rally to mark Norouz, the new year of the Persian calendar, in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, March 21, 2025.

However, Öcalan's call to lay down arms carries deep political and security implications, coming as it does at a time when the region is witnessing rapid geopolitical transformations ...

Öcalan supporters end hunger strike 05/26/2019 May 26, 2019. Thousands of inmates in Turkish prisons and politicians have ended their hunger strike, after a call from jailed Kurdish rebel leader ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...