Abdullah Öcalan
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Abdullah Öcalan is the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant organization that has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey since the 1980s. He is a significant and controversial figure in Middle Eastern politics whose capture, imprisonment, and ideology have shaped decades of conflict and debate over Kurdish rights in the region.
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Abdullah Öcalan (/ˈoʊdʒəlɑːn/ OH-jə-lahn; Turkish: [œdʒaɫan]; born 4 April 1948 or 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a 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. For most of his leadership, he was based in Syria, which provided sanctuary to the PKK until the late 1990s.
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