The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has urged his followers to lay down their arms in the decades-long fight against Turkey. Boris Roessler/dpa ...

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Flags bearing the images of Abdullah Ocalan, founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), are waved during a protest organized by the Kurdish community in Rome marking the 26th ...

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Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society. In a historic call on Thursday, ...

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In a historic call on Thursday, Ocalan called for his PKK to be dissolved and its fighters to lay down their arms in a major step towards ending the decades-long conflict with the Turkish state.