The Kurdistan workers’ party (PKK) said its dissolution on Monday, May 12, and decided to end decades of fratricidal fighting that killed nearly 40,000 people in Turkey, according to an online statement by The Prokurde Anf agencyclose to the armed party. “The PKK struggle has dropped the policy of denial and annihilation of our people, brought the Kurdish question to a point where it can be resolved through democratic policies, and, in this regard, has closed the historic mission of the PKK”, Can we read.
This decision comes at the end of a congress held from May 5 to 7 in “Media defense areas”term used by the movement to designate the mountains of Qandil, in northern Iraq, where the military command of the PKK and its fighters are located. This one took place at the call “” of leader Abdullah Öcalan “, According to the ANF.
On February 27, the historic PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, “apo” (“uncle”, in Kurd) for his supporters, called his movement to lay down their arms and dissolve.
This 76-year-old leader’s call, imprisoned for twenty-six years on Imrali island in Istanbul, followed a mediation launched in the fall by an ally of the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nationalist Devlet Bahceli, by the Prokurde DEM party canal. The PKK had responded favorably on 1er Mars, announcing an immediate ceasefire with Turkish forces.
Iraq demanded in March a total withdrawal from its Turkish army territory and PKK fighters in the event of a peace agreement. For their part, the Kurdish fighters in the Syrian Democratic Forces (FDS), in northeast of Syria, had said “Not concerned” by the call of the PKK to disarm.
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