Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known ...

Kurdish PKK fighters began laying down weapons in northern Iraq, marking a historic step toward peace and ending decades of ...

The PKK terrorist group's leader Abdullah Öcalan appeared in a video released on Wednesday and reaffirmed the group’s ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has announced an end to the group’s armed struggle against Turkey, and a full transition to “democratic politics ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters march while holding the group’s flag and photo of one of the group’s founding members, Abdullah Öcalan. (irandiplomacy.ir) Recent diplomatic tensions between ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 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.

The recent call by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli for Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to address parliament has sparked a range of ...

Attacks in Turkey and clashes with Kurdish groups significantly increased in 2016. Keep track of the latest developments on the Center for Preventive Action’s Global Conflict Tracker.