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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.
Jul 12, 2024 · 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.
Mar 21, 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...
Abdullah Öcalan, also known as “Apo,” is a person whose name is at the heart of a controversy, globally, and particularly in Turkey about what he is – a thinker, a philosopher, a freedom fighter, a civil rights activist or a “terrorist.”
Following a consultation between Abdullah Öcalan and his lawyers on 22 May 2019, Öcalan issues a statement calling for the mass hunger strike resistance against the isolation to be brought to an end.
“As Öcalan’s biography shows, his imprisonment and the perseverance of the Kurdish people helped to spread the philosophy of a movement that was little known twenty-five years ago and that today, together with Zapatism, represents the greatest hope for the peoples of the world.”
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.
Nov 30, 2022 · Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdish PKK organization, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), accusing Greece of violating his rights during his stay in the country.
A founding member of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan was born in a Kurdish Turkish village in 1948. Öcalan is often referred to as Apo (Kurdish for Uncle) in popular Kurdish culture.
Abdullah Öcalan, also known as Apo (Uncle in Kurdish, as well as an abbreviated form of Abdullah) is a key figure in the development of the worldwide Kurdistan Freedom Movement. Öcalan was one of the original founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 1978.
