Ocalan

Abdullah Öcalan
Öcalan in 1997
Born	1946-1948 Ömerli, Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey
Residence	İmralı (prison island)
Nationality	Kurdish
Citizenship	Turkey
Occupation	Founder and leader of militant organization PKK,political activist, writer, political theorist
Organization	Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Koma Civakên Kurdistan (KCK)
Spouse(s)	Kesire Yıldırım (24 May 1978 – ?)
Relatives	Dilek Öcalan (niece) Osman Öcalan (brother) Mehmet Öcalan (brother)

Abdullah Öcalan (/ˈoʊdʒəlɑːn/ OH-jə-lahn;Turkish: [ød͡ʒaɫan]; born 4 April 1948), also known as Apo (short for both Abdullah and "uncle" in Kurdish), is a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the founding members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Öcalan was arrested in 1999 by the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT) with the support of the CIA in Nairobi and taken to Turkey, where he was sentenced to death under Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which concerns the formation of armed organisations. The sentence was commuted to aggravated life imprisonment when Turkey abolished the death penalty in support of its bid to be admitted to membership in the European Union. From 1999 until 2009, he was the sole prisoner on İmralı island, in the Sea of Marmara. Öcalan now argues that the period of armed warfare is past and a political solution to the Kurdish question should be developed. The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has resulted in over 40,000 deaths, including PKK members, the Turkish military, and civilians, both Kurdish and Turkish.