Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Ocalan delivering his message from Imrali Prison

Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.

Iranian flag behind a prisoner in a cell

Sarah Glynn looks at the brutal crackdown on Kurds and other minorities and activists since the Israeli-United States bombings of Iran.

Salih Muslim and Abdullah Ocalan

Salih Muslim spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the significance for Rojava of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. 

group of people with MPs

Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Ebru Günay after she visited Australia with a Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party delegation from Turkey.

protest for Ocalan's release in Afrin

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen.

Omer Ocalan and Abdullah Ocalan

A deputy of the People’s Equality and Democracy Party has made public in the Turkish parliament the details of his meeting with imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, reports Medya News.

Map of northern Syria

Sarah Glynn reviews the week’s extraordinary events in Syria and examines the evolution and nature of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, whose forces have charged through the hollowed-out shell of Bashar al Assad’s regime and potentially beyond the control of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Prominent Australians have joined the global call on the government of Turkey to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, reports Peter Boyle.

Kurdish community members held a media conference on the steps of Parliament House to amplify calls for Kurdish political prisoner Abdullah Öcalan to be freed. Gabriel Di Falco reports.

Kurds and their supporters in France, Germany, and Switzerland protested on July 8 over new death threats against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been imprisoned by the Turkish state for the past 24 years, reports Peter Boyle.

Kurdish-Australians and their supporters called on the federal government and other world powers to stand up against isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. Peter Boyle reports.

Kurds and supporters began a month-long campaign to free imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan by sailing through iconic Sydney Harbour in a flag and banner-dressed yacht. Peter Boyle reports.