The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring ...

PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is leading peace efforts to end a Kurdish armed rebellion against Turkiye after four decades.

The PKK announced that it had held a congress in Iraqi Kurdistan, most likely to decide on disbanding after its leader's call ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated ...

The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on Friday, about two months after its imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, also known as “Appo”, called on the group to ...

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

A Kurdish militant group says it has held a key congress during which historic decisions were taken, but stops short of ...

A Kurdish militant group announced a historic decision Monday to disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with ...

Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan - Copyright POOL/AFP Mikhail KLIMENTYEV, Thibault CAMUS Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of ...

A "major paradigm shift" is required to mend fractured ties between Turkey and its Kurdish minority after the PKK's historic disarmament move, jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan said Sunday.

Now 76, Ocalan has been held in solitary confinement since 1999 on Imrali prison island near Istanbul. But since October, when Turkey tentatively moved to reset ties with the PKK, Ocalan has been ...