welcomed jailed Ocalan's call for the PKK, which is headquartered in the Kurdistan region, to lay down its weapons and dissolve. "We warmly welcome Ocalan's message... and we call on the PKK to ...

ISTANBUL: Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul.

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

ISTANBUL: Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish fighter group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul.

"All groups must lay down their arms and PKK must dissolve itself," he said in a declaration drawn up in his cell on Imrali prison island where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999.

ISTANBUL — Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul. "All groups ...

An emotional crowd broke into applause, while others wept in the main city of Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast Thursday as jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militant group to dissolve ...

Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

DEM PARTY / VIA REUTERS Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan on Thursday, February 27, called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration ...

An emotional crowd broke into applause, while others wept in the main city of Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast Thursday as jailed PKK founder ... to lay down their weapons.