A portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and a sign with the words "Serok Apo," are displayed on a hillside in the Qandil mountains, Iraq, October 26, 2025.

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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) says it is disbanding after more than 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The announcement came after the PKK held its congress in northern Iraq on ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has appeared on a video urging his group to move toward peace. It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to ...

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Abdullah Öcalan warned Turkish lawmakers that a failure in the peace process would trigger a military coup, while rejecting ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with Turkey's government that ...

ANKARA, Turkey(AP) — A Turkish parliamentary delegation held talks Monday with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group, as part of an ongoing peace initiative to end a ...

Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan — Ina FASSBENDER Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a ...

July 11 (UPI) --The Kurdish militant group PKK took its first step toward peace with Turkey as it burned weapons after 40 years of conflict. The group of 30 PKK members went to a cave near ...