The PKK's insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 has led to some 40,000 deaths. Ocalan, imprisoned since 1999, still holds significant influence over Kurdish politics.

DEM Party has started mediating talks between the Turkish state and the PKK after visiting Ocalan last month. The pro-Kurdish party has said that its meetings with politicians from across the ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second ...

Turkey's Pro-Kurdish Party to Meet Jailed PKK Leader Again Wednesday ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed ...

Talks resumed after the head of Turkey's nationalist MHP party, Devlet Bahceli, invited Ocalan to parliament in October to disband the PKK, also putting on the table a possible early release.

Dışişleri Bakan Yardımcısı Nuh Yılmaz, SDG-PKK yapılanmasının tek blok halinde Suriye ordusuna girmeyi talep ettiğini, ancak 60 yıl önce Baas rejiminin gelişindeki deneyimleri ...

In the past, Bahceli's party had also called for the reintroduction of the death penalty, primarily to execute the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. The paramilitary PKK is classified as a ...

DEM's first meeting with Ocalan followed Bahceli's surprise proposal last year for Ocalan to announce the PKK's disbandment. The talks fostered peace hopes but the precarious situation of Kurdish ...

Terör örgütü PKK mensupları, 24 Kasım 1989'da Yüksekova ilçesine yaklaşık 50 kilometre mesafedeki İkiyaka köyünde masum sivilleri hedef alan bir saldırı düzenlemişti. Haberin ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's key nationalist ally urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to explicitly announce the group's disbandment after his next ...

A delegation from the main pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) was recently granted rare access to Imrali prison to meet jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Bahceli ...