Citizens of Kurdish ethnicity are divided between southern Turkey and Northern Syria
The PKK party leader announced Thursday the intention to dissolve the group, asking all the combatants to lower their weapons and to work on a logic of ending the militia who for years fought for the rights of Kurds in Turkey and Syria.
Abdullah Öcalan, who is in prison, announced the party’s dissolution through a letter.
“As with any modern community and party whose existence has not been abolished by force, the PKK must voluntarily call its congress and make a decision: all groups must testify the weapons and PKK should dissolve,” said the official.
This dissolution happens a few months after the deposition of Bashar al-Assad as president of Syria, a territory where the Kurds have great influence, namely to the north.
This decision will certainly be seen as a great victory for Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who for several years has tried to end PKK, a party that has reported several times from terrorist attacks on Turkish soil.
