ISTANBUL (AP) — 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 ...

The challenge for Turkey and the Kurds is to build an inclusive national identity capacious enough to accommodate Kurdish ...

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed founder of the Kurdish militant PKK group, is an icon for many Kurds but a reviled terrorist for many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The ...

ISTANBUL, May 12 (Reuters) - The 76-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the ...

Iraq has welcomed on Thursday the call by Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), for ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his rebel militant group lay down its arms and disband in a momentous announcement that could bring an end to a bloody decades-long conflict with ...

As the Kurdish forces dissolve, experts express concern if their rights will be won through democratic means.

- From village life to militancy - Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six siblings in a mixed Turkish-Kurdish peasant family in Omerli, a village in Turkey's southeast. His mother tongue is ...

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Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan — Ina FASSBENDER Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a ...

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