MHP leader Bahçeli had urged Öcalan to call on Syrian Kurds to disarm, as he had done with the PKK. The imprisoned militant ...

September 16th, 2025 marks the 3rd anniversary of the state femicide of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish-Iranian ...

Prominent Australians have joined the global call on the government of Turkey to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, reports Peter Boyle. Kurdish community calls for freedom for political prisoner ...

A person waves a flag bearing the picture of Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Oecalan during a celebration marking the Kurdish New Year "Newroz" in Frankfurt. Andreas ...

A group of Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) lawmakers will travel to Imralı island next week to meet with ...

Returning from İmralı, it is expected that Mehmet Öcalan will share the details of his meeting with Abdullah Öcalan after he meets 50 volunteers on hunger strike. Heading to İmralı island to meet ...

Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 15, 1999. Now, writing from isolation in Turkey’s Imrali ...

A man displays a flag with the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Oecalan at the Kurdish Newroz celebration in Frankfurt. Oecalan, the jailed founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

The spokesperson for the ruling AK Party says the terror-free Türkiye initiative, aiming at disarmament of the PKK terrorist ...

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Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen. Ömer Öcalan reveals details of his October meeting with Kurdish leader ...