By bnm Baghdad bureau The Kurdistan Workers' Party announced on July 3 that its fighters in northern Iraq will begin ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, involved in a prolonged insurgency in Turkey, is starting to disarm as part of a peace ...

U.S. administrations castigated the PKK and praised democracy but never considered that the PKK created the only oasis of progressivism in the region.

Abdullah Ocalan needs better communication with the outside world to manage the militant group’s proposed disarmament and political transition, pro-Kurdish leaders in Turkey have said. "Mr Ocalan will ...

PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan, in the middle, reading the statement at Imrali prison island, Turkey, on February 27 (Photo | ANF News) Neena Gopal Updated on: 22 May 2025, 4:08 pm ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any future talks after a decision ...

Jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Sunday called for renewed Kurdish-Turkish relations, days after the PKK announced plans to dissolve itself and end its armed ...

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. His ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, whose leader Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, made the decision to disband in a move towards ending its conflict with Turkey.

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 Turkish.