Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is "ready to make a call" to back a new initiative by the Turkish government to end decades of conflict, Turkey's pro-Kurd party said Sunday. Two lawmakers from the DEM party made a ...

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Saturday visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, party officials said.

The jailed leader of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has been quoted as indicating he may be prepared to call for militants to lay down arms, after a key ally of President Tayyip Erdogan urged him to end the group's decades-old insurgency.

The leader of Kurdish separatist group PKK said he’s ready to cooperate with the Turkish government in a bid to end a long-running conflict that’s claimed thousands of lives, according to a statement by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party,

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed the recent olive branch extended to Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Fidan said that the proposal by Devlet Bahceli – the leader of Turkey's far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – to have Ocalan address the Turkish parliament offered a "space" to find a peaceful solution to the long-running conflict with the PKK.

Abdullah Ocalan, said on Sunday he is "ready to make a call" to back a new initiative by the Turkish government to end decades of conflict, Turkey's pro-Kurdish party confirmed. Two politician's from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) party made a rare visit to Ocalan on