I n a radical new turn in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called on his party to lay down its arms and disband.

Kurdish National Congress led by President Masoud Barzani, DEM Party co-chair Tuncer Bakırhan told Kurdistan24. He hailed the ...

Amid the latest church attack, Syria stands united, its people embracing their one Syrian national identity and shared roots ...

It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The country's restored unity, fractured by autonomy demands, will depend on the success of the process, with a deadline set for the end of the year.

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

In September 2014, Öcalan called for the Kurds to start an “all-out resistance” to fight IS. In the process, the SDF carved out a semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Syria.

Following Abdullah Öcalan’s call for disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Syrian Kurdish leaders said the statement doesn't concern Kurdish-led groups controlling the country's north and ...

The HIndu profiles on Abdullah Öcalan, former PKK leader, ... In 1979, Mr. Öcalan moved to Syria’s Kobane from where he would continue to lead the PKK. In 1980, ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish ... It also comes nearly two weeks after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his followers in ...