Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party known as PLK, sent a letter calling for the group to disarm and dissolve to make peace with Turkey.

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Jailed Kurdish separatist leader calls for PKK to disarm in move that could shake up Turkey and Middle East - Abdullah Ocalan’s message follows four decades of guerrilla warfare

The long-imprisoned leader of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party has called on his followers to disarm, a move that could end a decades-long conflict with Turkey. Chief Correspondent at Al-Monitor Amberin Zaman tells Becky Anderson more about this historic call.

The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish state to fight for a Kurdish homeland.

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia will heed its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for disarmament and declare an immediate ceasefire, a news agency close to the group cited it as saying on Saturday,

A senior Turkish official says groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Syria and Iraq should dissolve themselves.