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

A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers ...

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.

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 ...

Abdullah Öcalan, who has been jailed since 1999, has called for the group's disbandment in recent months. (AP: Metin Yoksu) The group's jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, had called for the ...

The announcement follows an appeal made at the end of February from prison by Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

In February, PKK founder and imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan had called for the group to convene a congress to dissolve and lay down arms to bring an end to the decades-long conflict with Turkey.

A person waves a flag bearing the picture of Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Oecalan during a celebration marking the Kurdish New Year "Newroz" in Frankfurt. Andreas ...