On May 12, 2025, the PKK announced its dissolution upon the recommendation of its founding leader. While most observers ...

The negotiations between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party have nothing to do with the pursuit of peace and democracy.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said it will pull its fighters from Turkey to Iraq and end its armed struggle, ...

A person waves a flag bearing the picture of Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Oecalan during a celebration marking the Kurdish New Year "Newroz" in Frankfurt. Andreas ...

On the 23 rd anniversary of the abduction and illegal arrest of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, February 15, a number of current and former Australian members of parliament and other prominent people ...

Prominent Australians have joined the global call on the government of Turkey to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, reports Peter Boyle. Kurdish community calls for freedom for political prisoner ...

A man displays a flag with the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Oecalan at the Kurdish Newroz celebration in Frankfurt. Oecalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

Lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan Go to İmralı Prison Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, the lawyers of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, have gone to İmralı Prison to meet him after 20 days. In their last ...

Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül has stated that “the legal obstacle to Abdullah Öcalan’s meeting with his lawyers has been removed” and added that it has nothing to do with the allegation that a ...

Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 15, 1999. Now, writing from isolation in Turkey’s Imrali ...

Following a handshake between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM-Party) in the Turkish parliament on October 1, 2024, a DEM-Party ...

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