Tag: Ocalan
What to Know About Abdullah Ocalan and the Turkey-P.K.K. Conflict
For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., a militant group that says...
Kurdish Insurgent Group Declares Cease-Fire in Conflict With Turkey
The Kurdish guerrilla group that has been fighting a long-running insurgency against Turkey declared a cease-fire on Saturday, days after a call from its...
Who Is the P.K.K. Leader Abdullah Ocalan?
Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been waging a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for decades, has...
Jailed Kurdish PKK leader Ocalan issues call to lay down arms
Paul KirbyEurope digital editorReutersBahceli has for years pushed for tough military action against the PKK, but last October he surprised colleagues by shaking hands...
If PKK’s Ocalan renounces violence, he may get parole, says Erdogan ally Bahceli
The leader of Turkiye’s far-right nationalist party that’s allied with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the possibility on Tuesday that the imprisoned leader of...