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Arab News
March 29, 2018
A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel destroys a poster of Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan in the city of Afrin in northern Syria on March 18, 2018. (AFP). ANKARA: A German national who was trying to cross into Syria from Turkey has been arrested by Turkish authorities over alleged links toÃâà...
Haaretz
March 21, 2018
In a city still scarred by fighting between the PKK and Turkish troops, young women and men linked hands and danced to traditional Kurdish music in the warm spring sunshine, chanting for Afrin and jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. A man holds flares during the Newroz celebrations, marking the start ofÃâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
Haqi Kobani, the deputy commander of the S.D.F., was holding down the fort in his capacious office, where a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., had pride of place. While Kurds hold most of the leadership positions, the S.D.F. is a majority Arab forceÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 7, 2018
They were also found posing next to the photographs of the terror group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan, as well as other so-called leaders. In its report published on Feb. 12, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba said tens of thousands ofÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 2, 2018
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Thursday handed the MP niece of the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, a two- and-a-half-year jail term on charges of terror propaganda. Dilek Ocalan has served in parliament since June 2015 elections as an MP for theÃâà...
Kuwait Times
March 2, 2018
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court yesterday handed the MP niece of the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, a two- and-a-half-year jail term on charges of terror propaganda. Dilek Ocalan has served in parliament since June 2015 elections as an MP for the pro-KurdishÃâà...
Rudaw
March 2, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Turkish court has sentenced the niece of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan to two years and six months in prison. Dilek Ocalan is a lawmaker with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was convicted of conducting “propaganda for a terror organization.
Citizen
March 2, 2018
Her uncle Abdullah Ocalan founded the PKK and spearheaded the group in its insurgency against the Turkish state which began in 1984 and has left tens of thousands dead. He was detained in 1999 in a Hollywood-style operation by Turkish security forces in Kenya after many years on the run andÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 1, 2018
Ocalan, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), is the niece of the imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder, Abdullah Ocalan. Kurdistan 24's Diyarbakir bureau reported that Sanliurfa's central criminal court, known in Turkey as a heavy penal court, deemed her attendance at a 2016 funeralÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 28, 2018
On February 15, the local affiliate of the independent group “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” reported that Kurdish SDF officials in two towns had ordered shopkeepers to close their stores and join demonstrations demanding that Turkey release Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's imprisoned leader.
Deutsche Welle
February 27, 2018
Should Muslim be extradited to Turkey, he would be one of the highest-ranking Kurds to be captured since the 1999 arrest of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan. Muslim has been wanted by Turkey in connection with a February 2016 bombing in Ankara that killed 30 people. He denies any connection to theÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2018
The authority wielded by women here — in the police, the courts and the militias — is patterned on the gender egalitarian philosophy of the Kurds' ideological leader, Abdullah Ocalan. The founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., Mr. Ocalan is serving a life sentence in Turkey on terrorism charges,Ãâà...
Indus Tribune (blog)
January 31, 2018
Since the nation-state transcends its material basis, the citizens, it assumes an existence beyond its political institutions. It needs additional institutions of its own to protect its ideological basis as well as legal, economic and religious structures. The resulting ever-expanding civil and military bureaucracy isÃâà...
