As a party linked to the PKK terrorist group complains about ambiguity in the terror-free Türkiye initiative, the government ...

The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms ...

This hoped-for peace process, they said, is meant to “enable all of us to live a common and free life.” Öcalan again plays a decisive role for a political solution, peace, and the ...

The détente follows a surprise offer in October from Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the government’s nationalist governing partner, to free Öcalan in return for ordering the PKK to lay down arms.

The PKK wrote, “It is clear that a new historical process has begun in Kurdistan and the Middle East with this [Öcalan’s] call. This will also have a great impact on the development of free ...

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A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday.

Öcalan has been serving a life sentence for ... It reads, “Respect for identities, free self-expression, democratic self-organisation of each segment of society based on their own socio ...