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Abdullah Öcalan

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EstablishedÖcalan co-founded the PKK in 1978, was seized in Nairobi on 15 February 1999, sentenced to death in June 1999, and had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment after Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2002; he has been held on İmralı island.EstablishedInfluenced by Murray Bookchin, Öcalan moved from Marxism–Leninism towards democratic confederalism, a model of stateless self-administration through communes and councils.EstablishedOn 27 February 2025 a statement by Öcalan called on the PKK to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself; on 12 May 2025 the PKK announced that its 12th congress had decided to dissolve the organisation and end its armed struggle, and on 11 July 2025 about 30 PKK fighters burned their weapons at a symbolic disarmament ceremony in Sulaymaniyah province, Iraq.