PKK Kurdish Guerrillas
Kurdish guerrilla PKK announced its dissolution and the end of a 40-year “armed struggle” against the Turkish state in response to the appeal of the founder and leader of the organization, Abdullah Öcalan, made from prison.
The 12th Congress of PKK [Partido dos Trabalhadores do Curdistão] decided dissolve the organizational structure of PKK and put End to the armed struggle method.
“The implementation process will be conducted and carried out by the leader APO (Abdullah Öcalan)thus ending the activities developed under the name of PKK, ”said the guerrillas in a statement issued by the Turkish media.
Öcalan, who has been in a life sentence for 25 years, appealed on February 27 to PKK, considered a terrorist organization for Turkey, the United States and the European Union, to testify the weapons and put one final point to four decades of armed struggle, which left about 45 thousand dead.
The PKK held a congress between May 5 and 7 to discuss Öcalan’s request.
“The PKK’s 12th Extraordinary Congress considered that the PKK struggle broke the policy of denial and annihilation imposed on our people, led the Kurdish question to the point of being resolved through democratic policies and thus fulfilled its historical mission”, Justified, on Monday, the unlawful organization of his decision to testify the weapons.
On the 8th, the islamist president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoganhe announced at a meeting of his party, AKP, that the Kurdish organization would soon announce the decision to testify the weapons.
Pkk gave up the requirements
Initially, PKK, which operates mainly from its bases in northern Iraq, He had required Öcalan to be released and he himself led a possible peace process with the Turkish state.
Already in 2013, Öcalan had announced the end of PKK independentist aspirations, the intention to integrate the Kurds into a democratic Turkey and the abandonment of weapons, but the process was aborted in 2015 and the fighting and attacks intensified.
Since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has launched its insurrection in 1984, More than 40,000 people were killed by the conflict.
