Alwaght- It was supposed that Turkeys Kurds, and specifically the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), would lose a great deal of their fighting potentials against Turkeys central government after Abdullah Ocalan, the party's leader, was arrested on February 15, 1999 in the Kenyan capital Nairobi as an outcome of a cooperation between the Israeli intelligence ...

[caption id="attachment_133550" align="alignright" width="120"] File photo shows Turkish Kurds holding a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.[/caption] The imprisoned leader of Turkeys outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has expressed hope to conclude a peace deal with the Turkish government within months. Abdullah Ocalan made the remarks ...

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has threatened to launch a new wave of attacks on Turkey, unless Ankara accepts meaningful negotiations with the Kurds. Cemil Bayik, the acting leader of the militant group, threatened to end the ongoing peace process between the Turkish government and the PKK's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in an interview with Reuters,...

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has urged the Turkish government to engage in serious talks in a bid to end nearly three decades of conflict. In a written statement released by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) on Monday, Ocalan said he was still hopeful a peace deal with the Turkish government ...