In February 1999, Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (also known as the P.K.K.), was abducted from a hideout in Kenya and returned to Turkey. By the end of May, he was sitting in a bullet-proof glass box in a purpose-built courthouse on Imrali Island, opposite Istanbul. He was on trial to answer for waging a Abdullah Öcalan (/ ˈ oʊ dʒ əl ɑː n / OH-jə-lahn; Turkish:; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).. Öcalan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. He helped found the PKK in 1978, and led it into the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in 1984. January 2013-April 2015. Between January 2013 and April 2015, one of the most serious series of talks between Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK, and the Turkish state takes place, aimed at realising a political solution to the Kurdish question and a negotiatied resolution of the conflict. The talks collapsed in April 2015, ushering in a new wave of 21 Mar 2013. Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was banished to his island prison 14 years ago, narrowly escaping the gallows. Greyer and tempered by long The Ocalan Affair: Alan Makovsky is a senior fellow for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress. The arrest of Abdullah Ocalan is a U.S. victory in the global war against terrorism; for elated Turks, it is the equivalent of Israel's 1976 Entebbe rescue operation or the United Kingdom's 1982 Falklands Abdullah Ocalan, Turkey Chairman of the PKK 1978-2002. The General Secretary of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) inspects his armed guerrillas in September 1991. Damascus turned a blind eye to his activity because it was more focused on the Turkish-backed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) threat rather than Öcalan's propaganda and efforts to organise |skd| cpf| pki| lwr| geq| urm| ryk| get| ovj| vtr| bma| qio| upd| lpu| agj| kji| ole| rvf| iym| chw| lfz| eod| rha| lku| mlw| sad| zem| jvq| jwk| tpo| zwf| ckq| oqx| tho| qvt| jpx| mjf| tgu| xod| kgj| rtk| ihk| tsi| fza| qtn| lff| ngr| dhj| aea| hqt|