The ceasefire is the first sign of a break in the conflict since peace talks between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Ankara broke down in the summer of 2015.

The senior KCK figure further criticized the 26-year-long imprisonment of Ocalan on Imrali island located south ... s leadership and is released from prison. The upcoming message notably comes ...

Abdullah Öcalan called on Thursday for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a declaration drawn up in his cell on Imrali prison island. Abdullah Öcalan ...

Turkey revives Kurdish peace talks after years of deadlock. But military strikes on PKK positions cast doubt on the process. A conflict spanning decades At least 40,000 people have been killed in ...

“Our delegation will go to Imrali [prison] in the next few days and a request for a meeting will be submitted today or tomorrow,” Gulistan Kilic Kocyigit, deputy head of the pro-Kurdish ...

The PKK also appealed for Öcalan to be released from Imrali prison, located on an island in the Marmara Sea, to "personally direct and execute" a party congress that would lead to the militants laying ...

"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.