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.

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 ...

ANKARA, Jan 22 (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 ...