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Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader, called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as ...

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

whether PKK-affiliated Kurdish fighters in Syria would disarm, or how quickly Turkey’s government, which has resisted any suggestion it is cutting a deal with Ocalan or the PKK, would offer ...

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged the ceasefire as a potential step toward peace, he has also warned that military operations against the PKK will resume if disarmament ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants declared a ceasefire Saturday with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...

There was no immediate reaction from the PKK's leadership, which is based in northern Iraq. The group, founded by Ocalan in 1978, has led an insurgency in Turkey’s southeast since 1984.

The Kurdish group said in a statement that any congress for dissolution must include the jailed leader An Iraqi Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the founder of the ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and ...

The PKK was established by Ocalan in 1978, initially seeking full independence and statehood for Turkey's large Kurdish minority, but later asking for autonomy. Since then, as many as 40,000 ...