While the PKK has announced its dissolution and intention to stop fighting, clashes continue in Iraqi Kurdistan between ...

Dr Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to President Sheikh Mohamed, has praised the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for calling for the group to lay down its weapons. Jailed leader Abdullah ...

In a seven-minute video message broadcast on media close to the militants, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan ...

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a ...

PKK's transition. The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, officially declared the group’s ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK, appeared in a rare video to declare the end of the group's armed struggle against Turkey, urging a transition to democratic politics. His message ...

In the first footage of him to be released publicly since 1999, Abdullah Ocalan declared that the PKK's armed struggle ...

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

Kurdish PKK fighters. (Kurdishstruggle via Wikimedia / CC BY 2.0) The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a secessionist campaign against Turkey since 1978, announced on May 12 its ...

The PKK resorted to brutal tactics beginning in the late 1980s and early 90s. According to a report by the European Council on Foreign Relations from 2007, the group, under Ocalan, kidnapped ...

Ocalan had absolute rule over the PKK and worked to stamp out rival Kurdish groups, monopolising the struggle for Kurdish liberation, according to Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight ...