While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish politics in Syria and the broader region.
By Gul Tuysuz, Isil Sariyuce, Max Saltman, Nadeen Ebrahim, Eyad Kourdi, Nechirvan Mando and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-lon…
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan made a historic call on Thursday for members of his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons and end more than four decades of conflict with the Turkish state.
In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul, Abdullah Ocalan says Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, should hold congress and decide to disband
After announcing a "historic declaration," on Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the militant Kurdish Workers' Party PKK called on the organization to lay down its arms and dissolve itself.
Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has killed an estimated 40,000 people.
Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of insurgency against the Turkish state.
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his PKK militant group to lay down arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end its conflict with Turkey.
After announcing a "historic declaration," on Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the militant Kurdish Workers' Party, called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve itself.
Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, on Thursday called for the group’s disarmament and disbandment. VOA Kurdish spoke to locals in Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city. While many residents supported Ocalan’s message of peace, others wondered whether...
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