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

“This is not an end, but a critical first step toward an honorable peace,” Bakırhan said. “For us, this marks the tangible ...

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 ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on ...

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 ...

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. Abdullah Ocalan emphasized ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has announced the end of the group’s armed ...

"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.

Despite Ocalan’s authoritarian rule, his charisma and positioning as a champion of Kurdish rights led most Kurds across Turkiye to love and respect him, calling him “Appo”, which means Uncle.