US EditionPkk: Release of Founder Öcalan Condition for Peace
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The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began on Friday in Iraq a symbolic disarmament intended to end one of the oldest conflicts in the region. But it calls for the release of its historical leader, detained in Turkey, to go further.
The militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) want to return to Turkey and enter politics. They are also demanding the release of the organization's imprisoned founder Abdullah Öcalan. Bese Hozat, who is the co-leader of the PKK with Cemil Bayik, told AFP on Friday. The interview came shortly after the first group of PKK fighters in northern Iraq loaded weapons into a large cauldron and lit a fire to ceremonially destroy them as part of a …
Today's Friday (11 July 2025) marks the turning point in Turkey's decades-long conflict with the Kurdish PKK: after the peace call by Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, the first fighters put down the weapons. A development that could affect the entire Middle East. In our July issue entitled "The Arsonist – How Netanyahu Kindles the World" [...] The post Historical: First PKK fighters put down weapons first appeared on COMPACT.
The Kurdish guerrilla of the PKK, in war with Turkey since the 1980s, has celebrated this Friday the first big step to end its more than four decades of armed conflict with the surrender and destruction of several dozen weapons by its militiamen. This step - symbolic, with about 40 militiamen handing over their weapons - is considered a key point in the peace process between the guerrillas and the Turkish State, begun this winter: in February, t…
In the peace process with Turkey, the banned underground organisation Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) makes the release of its founder Abdullah Öcalan a condition for a lasting solution. Only if Öcalan is free can the process progress, according to the PKK's related news agency ANF on Thursday. The PKK criticized that Turkey had done nothing so far and demanded that the process should be pushed forward by both sides.
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