The iconic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, has urged the militant group to lay down arms
Syria's national dialogue, held in Damascus at the end of February, was intended to chart the country's future, one that would have been unthinkable just three months earlier. However, the process and outcomes of the dialogue were flawed,
The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is intertwined with a deepening imperialist war in the Middle East and involves four countries in the region,
Turkey Continues Strikes on PKK in Iraq, Syria
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What does Öcalan's call for the PKK to lay down arms mean for Turkey and Syria?
Turkey Continues Strikes on PKK in Iraq, Syria Despite Ocalan Call
Ocalan last week called on his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and dissolve, and the militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday. "The Turkish Armed Forces will continue its operations and search-scanning activities in the region for the survival and security of our country,
Turkey urges PKK to ‘immediately’ surrender arms: defence sources
Turkey on Thursday called on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to “immediately and unconditionally” disband and surrender its weapons, following a call by the group’s jailed founder Abdullah Öcalan,
Ankara wants a success story without Western oversight.
The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) should dissolve. I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish guerrilla, on Thursday,
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Abdullah Öcalan’s appeal won’t end Türkiye’s long war with Kurdish minorityThere’s a reason to be sceptical about Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace. Efforts to end the fighting in 1993, 1995-1996, and 2013-2015 all led nowhere.
The U.S.-backed YPG, an arm of the PKK terrorist group in Syria, continues to receive encouraging messages from Israel and the U.S. to hold onto
The PKK leader’s calls for the group to disarm and dissolve is a step towards ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish state.
Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish question could be solved by “democratizing” the Turkish state.
These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon demands for Kurdish statehood, self-determination, autonomy, and even cultural rights,
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