Now, the group’s imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on Kurdish fighters to lay down their arms and they have declared a cease-fire. It is still unclear, however, whether 40 years of ...

Ocalan is a hero whom they refer to as 'Apo' or 'uncle' Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of Abdullah Ocalan, who set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1978 Abdullah ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The 75-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 ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...