Kurdish group PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey happymamay

The banned Kurdish group announced that the Kurdistan Workers Party has announced the shooting with Türkiye after its imprisoned leader Abdullah Oaklan called the movement to put its arms and dissolve itself.

In a statement on Saturday, the Kurdistan Workers Party said it hoped that Türkiye will release Uklan, who has been imprisoned in solitary confinement since 1999, so that it can lead the disarmament process.

This is followed by his call this week with the aim of ending four decades of armed struggle in the southeastern Türkiye in which tens of thousands of people were killed.

His announcement came months after the launch of Devlet Baheli, the leader of the extremist MHP party in Türkiye and the Turkish government ally, an initiative to end the conflict.

Ocalan – It is referred to with affection as APO by the Kurdish nationalists – they met the fangs of deputies from a pro -men party this week on Emali, an island in the Sea of ​​Marrara, southwest of Istanbul, where he is imprisoned.

The Executive Committee of the PKK said in a statement on Saturday: “In order to pave the way for the implementation of the leader of the leader for peace and the democratic community, we announce the ceasefire from today.”

He added: “None of our forces will take an armed action unless they are attacked.”

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said on Saturday that the military operations will resume against the PKK if “promises were made. [by the group] It is not kept. “The disarmament process stopped.

The Kurdistan Workers Party – which symbolizes the Kurdistan Labor Party – said that the conditions of the Ocalan prison must be reduced, adding that “it must be able to live and work in physical freedom and be able to establish unknown relationships with anyone who wants it, including his friends.”

The group has formed a rebellion since 1984, with the aim of carving a homeland for the Kurds, who represent about 20 % of 85 million people in Türkiye. It was banned as a terrorist group in Türkiye, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The call for disarmament, Oaklan was He appealed to members of the Kurdistan Workers Party in a message Read by members of the Dem party Ahmed Turki and Bervin Boldan in both Kurdish and Turkish.

“All groups must put their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself,” he said, adding that its movement was formed primarily because “democratic policy channels were closed.”

However, Bahceli, backed by positive references from Erdogan and other political parties, has created the appropriate environment for the PKK to put its arms, as Oaklan added.

Kurdish leaders have greatly welcomed development. Local reports stated that thousands of people gathered to see the statement on large screens in the cities of Darbakir and a charger in the southeast.

However, important questions between both the Kurdish and Turkish audience remain about what the following steps may be – and not everyone was convinced that things would change.

Last week, the senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party Party, Duran Kalkan, said that the ruling party in Türkiye, the Justice and Development Party, was not looking for a solution, but rather “assuming, destroying and exterminating.”

The Turkish forces supported in northeastern Syria intensified their campaign against the Kurdish forces and last month called the new Syrian leaders to eliminate the Kurdish -led Syrian democratic forces.

Politicians supporting men have been targeted by a wave of arrests and prison sentences in recent years.

About 40,000 people have died since the Kurdistan Workers’ Party rebellion has started.

There was a rise in violence in southeastern Türkiye from 2015 to 2017, when the ceasefire collapsed for two and a half years.

Recently, in October, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party won an attack on the headquarters of Turkish Aviation Industries (Tai) near Ankara, which left five people.