Öcalan

Turkish Intelligence Organization (MİT) has neutralized a PKK ringleader, Syrian citizen Hüseyin Şibli, codenamed "Ferhat Derik," in a surgical strike in northern Iraq's province of Sulaymaniyah.

According to local reports, Şibli, who was a high-rank PKK leader in Syria, was "assigned" recently to coordinate the terrorist organization's activities in Iraq.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) must distance itself from the terrorist PKK, Meral Akşener, the leader of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party, has said.

"We have been stressing this for months: We put the HDP next to the PKK," Akşener said during her party's parliamentary group meeting yesterday, suggesting the HDP has close ties to the terror organization.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Feb. 25 that it had launched an investigation into the fourth Ordinary Congress of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) after the party played a slideshow that featured photographs of imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan.

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, was captured and brought to Turkey on Feb. 15, 1999. Turkey had taken the risk of going to war if necessary when it called on Syria to return Öcalan, according to a retired ambassador who was the deputy undersecretary of the Turkish Foreign Ministry at the time.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Sept. 27 dismissed a complaint filed by the PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan.

When Gülizar Taşdemir (R) was stopped in Istanbul, the authorities seized two mobile phones, documents relating to the PKK and photographs of her with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan (L), who is serving a life sentence following his capture in 1999, Anadolu Agency reported.

The U.S. delivered Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to Turkey in 1999 in order to gain control of the group, former Chief of Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ has claimed, stressing that this is his “personal opinion.”

A court has sentenced Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Dilek Öcalan to two years and six months in prison on charges of making “terror propaganda.” 

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in Ankara on Sept. 17, over a pro-PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party) event held in the city of Cologne. 

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has sought to adapt the group's ideology in order to secure foreign support, according to journalist Fikret Bila, the editor-in-chief of daily Hürriyet.