Ocalan, 75, founded the PKK, in 1978, which began an armed insurrection for an autonomous Kurdish state in Turkey’s southeast in 1984, costing tens of thousands of lives.

Medeni Altundere, a member of the PKK terrorist group, was arrested in Istanbul on Friday following a joint operation by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the Istanbul Police Department ...

All 10 suspects, including deputy mayors of Istanbul’s Ataşehir and Kartal districts, were arrested on Friday after their detention earlier this week over alleged links to the PKK terrorist group.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Demonstrators march to demand the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in Qamishli, northeastern Syria ...

The DEM Party delegation, including lawmakers Pervin Buldan and Sirri Sureyya Onder, recently met Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned PKK leader, twice. According to Barzani’s office, they shared insights ...

"Their concerns are that the SDF has absorbed non-Syrian Kurdish groups like the Turkish Kurdish PKK, which seeks to create a state or an autonomous area on Turkey's border and threaten Turkey.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the international conspiracy on February 15, the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) issued a written statement: “For 26 years, under the ...

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