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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Öcalan’s nephew Ömer Öcalan, an MP for the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, visited the imprisoned figurehead on Wednesday and shared a message on his X account. “The isolation continues. If the conditions are ...

The isolation of Abdullah Öcalan's imprisonment has been brought to an end by the transfer of 5 convicts to İmralı Island.The leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been imprisoned ...

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 ...

Enlisting Öcalan, 75, and DEM to end an insurrection that has claimed more than 40,000 lives would mark a stunning shift from Erdoğan’s decade-long effort to weaken the Kurdish political ...

The announcement is part of recently launched talks between Öcalan and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s nationalist coalition. Ending a 40-year war that left 40,000 people dead is ...

This surprising suggestion comes as President Erdoğan is reportedly seeking support from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) to push for constitutional changes.

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