The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdulá Ocalanhas called the group A Depose weapons and dissolve. The announcement comes after Four decades of struggle and insurgency contra las Turkey authorities.
Prokurda training Popular Party for Equality and Democracy (DEM) He has made public a statement where Ocalan points out that “as is the case in any modern community and party whose existence has not been abolished by force, it must do so voluntarily.”
The leader of the insurgents Kurdos is found imprisoned in the Imrali prison. From there he asks that a congress be convened to adopt the decision. “All groups must depose weapons and the PKK must dissolve,” he said, before stating that There is “a suitable” climate “for this callwhose “historical responsibility” assumes.
He PKK, founded in 1978 and turned into armed group six years laterhe advocated in his origins for the creation of an independent state.
More recently, however, he has been advocating for greater autonomy in the areas of majority Kurda, in the Southeast and east of Türkiyepart of what I know Consider the historical Kurdistanwhich also extends to parts of Syria, Iraq and Iran.
The DEM himself, which before a new visit this Thursday to Imrali had advanced in his account on social network X that the planned announcement “could Mark the beginning of a new peace process“, recently said Ocalan would make” a Historical call“With the aim of achieving” an exhaustive and permanent solution to the Kurdish matter and for the construction of a democratic Türkiye. “
The prokurda training is mediating in conversations between the Turkish authorities and the PKK, in an effort to end the conflict. They began in 2013 although they collapsed in 2015 and were followed by a Building of clashes in mostly Kurdish territoriespoints Europa Press.
In this context, party delegations have to Ocalan in the Imrali prison, the last of which took place this Thursday, where it meets life imprisonment After being arrested in 1999 No nairobi (Kenya).
