The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — 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 ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state. By Safak Timur and Ben Hubbard Safak ...

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But since October, when Turkey tentatively moved to reset ties with the PKK, Ocalan has been visited three times by lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish opposition DEM party. For most Turks, Ocalan is ...

Ocalan's capture in exile on February 15, 1999, shocked his supporters A mural in northern Syria showing Kurdish fighters with a flag bearing Ocalan's face For many Kurds, Ocalan is a hero whom ...

(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) ISTANBUL (AP) — 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 ...