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Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, jailed 25 years ago, is again a focus of attention in Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally raised the possibility of his release in ...
Abdullah Öcalan (/ ˈ oʊ dʒ əl ɑː n / OH-jə-lahn; [9] Turkish:; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo [9] [10] (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), [11] [12] is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group's disbandment after his next meeting ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has said that he is willing to contribute to peace between Turks and Kurds, in a statement issued by the pro-Kurdish DEM party Sunday.
Öcalan was the leader of the PKK at the time, which had led an uprising against the Turkish Government demanding more political rights for the Kurdish population in Turkey. [2] Öcalan had lived several of the last twenty years in Syria, [ 1 ] which he had to leave on 9 October 1998 due to threats by the Turkish military to invade Syria if he ...
The Kurdistan Workers' Party [a] or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
Police detained Merdan Yanardag on Monday for "praising criminals" and "spreading terrorist propaganda" after he criticized the prison isolation of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the outlawed ...
In November 2012, about 10,000 Kurdish prisoners joined the hunger strike, calling for better detention conditions for Öcalan, the right to use the Kurdish language in trials, and the start of peace negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). [33] The strike lasted for sixty-eight days until Öcalan demanded its end.