The PKK also called for Ocalan to be released from ... he was flown to Ankara guarded by Turkish commandos, and sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to life in jail, where he has remained ...

Violence flared in August 1984 when PKK fighters killed two Turkish soldiers. As the years passed, clashes escalated and the death toll mounted, the PKK increasingly turned to militancy.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, bringing an end to more than 40 years of bloodshed. The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group ...

Ocalan on Thursday called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve, a move that President Tayyip Erdogan's government and the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party voiced support for. Sign up here.

Outlawed Kurdish militants Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...

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

The PKK: A brief history The PKK was founded in ... and separatism, and sentenced to death. His death sentence was later commuted to a life term. Since then, he has been held in solitary ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, appealed on Thursday to his militant group to disarm and to dissolve itself. His call, if ...