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His other brother, Mehmet Öcalan, is a member of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). [159] Fatma Öcalan is the sister of Abdullah Öcalan [160] and Dilek Öcalan, a former parliamentarian of the HDP, is his niece. [161] Ömer Öcalan, a current member of parliament for the HDP, is his nephew. [162] [163]
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 ...
The meeting with Demirtas — jailed in 2016 on terrorism charges that most observers, including the European Court of Human Rights, have labelled politically motivated — took place two weeks after DEM members met Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
The last attempt to reach a peace deal took place between 2013 and 2015 with a series of talks between Turkish officials and Ocalan, who declared a ceasefire and withdrew fighters to bases in northern Iraq. Turkish officials took steps to improve Kurdish rights, including allowing Kurdish-language broadcasts.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's key nationalist ally urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to explicitly announce the group's disbandment after his next expected meeting with ...
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 ...
Abdullah Ocalan, jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, has been cited as indicating a willingness to call on the PKK to lay down arms in a peace process to end the ...
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.