Abdullah Öcalan published a historic “Call for Peace and a Democratic Society.” In it, he calls on the Kurdistan Workers’ ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...

A delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is set to visit the PKK’s jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan on Monday, in ...

Kurdish independence has been an unresolved problem in West Asia for over a century, but a solution may be in sight. Two ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen. Ömer Öcalan reveals details of his October meeting with Kurdish leader ...

The most appropriate course of action for the PKK is to hold their conference and, in line with the Imrali message, dissolve the organization completely and hand over its arms to the Republic of ...

This time, it reintroduced the voice of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan after five years in solitary confinement. In a letter dated February 27, 2025, Öcalan reaffirmed his commitment to ...

Önder and Öcalan during a meeting on the İmralı island during the unsuccessful 2013-15 peace process. Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has expressed support ...

Tuncer Bakırhan is cochair of the left-wing Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and was part of the delegation that visited Abdullah Öcalan on February 27 on the prison island of İmralı.