Abdullah Öcalan (/ ˈ oʊ dʒ əl ɑː n / OH-jə-lahn; [10] Turkish:; born 4 April 1948 or 1949), also known as Apo [10] [11] (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), [12] [13] is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Mar 4, 2025 · Abdullah Öcalan (born April 4, 1948, Ömerli, Turkey) is the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish nationalist organization, who became widely known as the strongest advocate for Kurdish sovereignty.

Feb 27, 2025 · ISTANBUL (Reuters) - 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...

Feb 27, 2025 · "Bu sabaha karşı saat 03.00'ten itibaren bölücü terör örgütü PKK'nın başı Abdullah Öcalan Türkiye'dedir. Devletin son derece gizli tutulan bir operasyonuyla Öcalan, Kenya'dan ...

Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on İmralı Island in the Sea of Marmara since February 1999. He is serving a life sentence for violating Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code. [1] Initially, he was sentenced to death, [1] but the conviction was …

The trial of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), began on 31 May 1999 and concluded on 29 June with a death sentence for treason and separatism. Öcalan was captured in February 1999 in Nairobi , Kenya and extradited to Turkey.

Feb 27, 2025 · Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a “terrorist” to many within wider Turkish society. He called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its arms and disband, in a landmark declaration read out in İstanbul on Thursday.

Feb 28, 2025 · In this photo dated 1992, Abdullah Ocalan, leader of Turkey's outlawed separatist movement, the Kurdish Workers's Party (PKK), is shown at a training camp in Lebanon's Bekaa valley (AFP)

Abdullah Öcalan is a Kurdish militant who, as leader of the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK), led an armed campaign against the Turkish government until his capture and imprisonment in 1999. PERSONAL HISTORY

Abdullah Öcalan (/ˈoʊdʒəlɑːn/ OH-jə-lahn), also known as Apo ("Uncle" in Kurdish), is a Kurdish political theorist. He is one of the founders and the current leader (even though he is in prison) of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which fights against the Turkish government for independence of Turkish Kurdistan .