The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter ...

The group, the P.K.K., made its declaration days after its long-imprisoned leader urged the movement to disarm and disband, ...

By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak Timur reported from Istanbul. The imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has waged a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state called ...

Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish separatist PKK has called on his movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself – in a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Turkey and ...

On Thursday, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) called on his organisation to lay down their arms and ...

More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its armed campaign in 1984 for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeastern Turkey. It has since moved away from its separatist goals ...

In a historic call on Thursday, Ocalan called for his PKK to be dissolved and its fighters to lay down their arms in a major ...

They are accused of belonging to the outlawed Kurdish guerilla group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The newspaper itself was closed in October on the grounds that it was a “mouthpiece” for the PKK ...