A platform was set up for the statements, with a recent photograph of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan projected in the background. Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-Chair Besê Hozat ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...

A group of PKK members confirmed "voluntarily destroying their weapons" in a written statement. Video footage of the ceremony ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has announced an end to the group’s armed ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has called on his followers to ...

After 40 years of armed struggle, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the armed group that has fought for the independence and autonomy of the Kurdish people, has officially announced that it is ...

Against this backdrop, Abdullah Öcalan—the PKK’s imprisoned leader, held in solitary confinement on İmralı Island since 1999—issued a public call on February 27, 2025, for the PKK to ...

The PKK’s decision to disarm came two months after its imprisoned founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, issued a statement suggesting that the war had become obsolete.

Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on the Turkish prison island İmrali since 1999. What is his role in the current process? People's leader Abdullah Öcalan is the one who started this process.

On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in which he called on the group to lay down its arms, it has announced it will disband.

The militant group said that "all activities" conducted under its name would come to an end after a call by its jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, in February for it to disarm. The PKK has ...