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Grupo Kurdo prohibited PKK has declared a stop the fire with Türkiye after its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan asked the movement to place his arms and dissolve.
In a statement on Saturday, the PKK said that it hoped that Türkiye would release Ocalan, who has been imprisoned in solitary confinement since 1999, so that he can lead a disarmament process.
He follows his call this week destined to finish four decades of armed struggle in southeastern Turkey in which tens of thousands of people have killed themselves.
His announcement occurred months after Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Ultra -nationalist MHP party of Türkiye and an ally of the Turkish government, launched an initiative to end the conflict.
Olalan, affectionately known as Aut for the Kurdish nationalists, met with parliamentarians from a Pro -Kurdo match this week on Imrali, an island in Marmara’s sea, southwest of Istanbul, where he is imprisoned.
“To pave the way for the implementation of the call of the leader Aut for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a high effective fire as of today,” said PKK Executive Committee in a statement on Saturday, cited by the Pro-Pkk ANF news agency.
“None of our forces will take armed measures unless they are attacked,” he added.
The PKK, which represents the Kurdistan workers party, said that the conditions of the Ocalan prison must be relieved, and added that “he must be able to live and work in physical freedom and be able to establish relationships without obstacles with anyone who wants, including his friends.”
The group has fought an insurgency since 1984, with the aim of carving a homeland for the Kurds, representing about 20% of the 85 million people in Türkiye. It is prohibited as a terrorist group in Türkiye, the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Asking for disarmament, Ocalan had appealed to the members of the PKK in a letter Read for the members of the Dem Ahmet Turk and Pervin Blanan party both in Kurdo and Turkish.
He said that “all groups must put their arms and the PKK must dissolve,” and added that their movement formed mainly because “the channels of democratic politics were closed.”
However, Bahceli, backed by positive signals from the president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other political parties, had created the appropriate environment for the PKK to leave its weapons, added Ocalan.
Kurds leaders largely hosted development. Local reports said thousands of people gathered to see the statement on large screens in the cities of Diyarbakir and go in the predominantly Kurdish southeast.
However, there are significant questions between the Kurdish and Turkish public about what could be the next steps, and not everyone was convinced that things would change.
Last week, PKK’s senior commander Duran Kalkan said that Turkey’s ruling party, the AKP, was not looking for a solution but to “take charge, destroy and annihilate.”
The forces backed by Turkish in the Northeast of Syria have intensified their campaign against the Kurdish forces and last month they asked the new Syrian leaders to eliminate the Syrian democratic forces led by Kurdos.
Pro-Kurdos politicians have been attacked by a wave of arrests and jail sentences in recent years.
About 40,000 people have died since the insurgency of the PKK began.
There was an increase in violence in southeastern Turkey from 2015 to 2017 when a high fire of two and a half years broke.
More recently, in October, the PKK claimed an attack against the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) near Ankara, which left five dead people.
