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PKK urges Turkey to ease imprisonment of 'chief negotiator' Ocalan


Tuesday, 20 May, 2025 , 12:51 AFP The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any future talks after a decision to disband.

PKK urges Turkey to ease leader's solitary confinement for any peace talks


Tuesday, 20 May, 2025 , 11:54 AFP The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group's "chief negotiator" for any future talks after a decision to disband.

PKK rejects 'exile' from Turkey after disarmament


Tuesday, 20 May, 2025 , 11:32 AFP The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has expressed objection for its members to be exiled from Turkey under any future peace talks with Ankara, following a historic decision to disband.

PKK denounces lack of guarantees from Turkey for peace process


Tuesday, 20 May, 2025 , 11:26 AFP The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said that Turkey did not provide any "guarantees" to facilitate peace talks after the group had adopted a historic decision to disband.

CORRECTED: PKK urges Turkey to ease Ocalan's solitary confinement


Tuesday, 20 May, 2025 , 11:26 AFP The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, announcing him as the group's "chief negotiator" for any future peace talks after a decision to disband.

PKK urges Turkey to ease Ocalan's solitary confinement


Tuesday, 20 May, 2025 , 11:20 AFP The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said Tuesday that Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, announcing him as the group's "chief negotiator" for any future peace talks after a decision to disband.

After PKK move, healing Turkey-Kurd ties needs 'paradigm shift': Ocalan


Sunday, 18 May, 2025 , 20:36 AFP A "major" shift is needed to repair broken ties between the Turkish state and the country's Kurdish minority following the historic decision of the Kurdistan Workers Party to disarm, its jailed founder said Sunday.

Turkey destroys 30,000 marijuana plants: report


Sunday, 18 May, 2025 , 16:10 AFP Turkey's drug squad has destroyed 30,000 marijuana plants being secretly grown in a vast terraced garden by the Tigris River that is on the UN Cultural Heritage list, media reports said on Sunday.

Syria gives holdout armed groups deadline to join state forces


Saturday, 17 May, 2025 , 19:53 AFP Syria's defence minister on Saturday gave holdout armed groups a 10-day deadline to join the war-torn country's forces, in the latest push to unify ranks following Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

Syria says security force member, 3 IS jihadists dead in Aleppo operation


Saturday, 17 May, 2025 , 17:37 AFP Syria's interior ministry said a member of the security forces was killed in an operation that left three Islamic State group jihadists dead on Saturday in the northern city of Aleppo.