The militant group prohibits Kurdistan workers (PKK) said an immediate cease-fire on Saturday, a nearby press agency, declared, taking into account the imprisonment chief, the imprisonment leader Abdullah Ocalan, in a major stage towards the implementation of a 40-year-old insurrection against the Turkish state.
Ocalan called on the PKK on Thursday to lay down and dissolve a decision that the government of President Tayyip Erdogan and the Parte of the opposition Dem Pro-Kurdish expressed their support.
In case of success, this decision could have vast implications for the region, while ending a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people from the PKK – now based in the mountains of northern Iraq – launched its armed insurrection in 1984.
This could give Erdogan a domestic boost and a historic opportunity to bring peace and development in southeast Turkey where the conflict killed thousands of people and seriously injured the economy.
The group said he hoped that Ankara would give Ocalan, held in total isolation since 1999, more freedoms so that he can direct a disarmament process, adding that the necessary political and democratic conditions must be established to succeed.
“We, as PKK, are fully agree with the content of the call and indicate that, from our front, we will hold the needs of the appeal and implement it,” the group said in a statement, according to the Firat news agency.
“Beyond that, problems such as the implementation of weapons can only be carried out under the practical direction of the leader APO,” said the group, using its nickname for Ocalan, adding that it would stop all hostilities immediately unless you attack.
The PKK, appointed a terrorist group of Turkey and its Western allies, said that it was ready to summon a congress, as Ocalan asked, but the necessary security conditions should be established to “direct and direct it” personally “.
“We, as PKK, are fully agree with the content of the call and indicate that, from our front, we will hold the needs of the appeal and implement it,” the group said in a statement, according to the Firat news agency.
“Beyond that, problems such as the implementation of weapons can only be carried out under the practical direction of the leader APO,” said the group, using its nickname for Ocalan, adding that it would stop all hostilities immediately unless you attack.
The PKK, appointed a terrorist group of Turkey and its Western allies, said that it was ready to summon a congress, as Ocalan asked, but the necessary security conditions should be established to “direct and direct it” personally “.
It is not clear if Ankara addresses these problems. The Minister of Justice, Yilmaz Tunc, told the CNN Turk broadcaster on Friday that no amnesty, house arrest or other option was discussed and that there was no negotiation.
Analysts said that Erdogan, who has made repeated efforts in the past to end the conflict, focuses on the internal political dividends that peace could bring when he seeks to extend his rule of two decades beyond 2028 to the expiration of his mandate.
Putting the insurgency would eliminate a constant flash point in northern Iraq, rich in oil, rich in oil, while facilitating the efforts of the new administration of Syria to assert a greater influence on northern areas of Syria controlled by Kurdish forces.
The Call of Ocalan, provoked by a surprise proposal in October by an ultra-nationalist ally of Erdogan, was welcomed by the United States, the European Union and other Western allies, as well as by the neighbors of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
Turkey tried to take advantage of regional geopolitical developments after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria after 11 years of civil war, in which Ankara supported the rebels looking for her overthrow.
The new Islamist government of Damascus has established good links with Turkey, which continues to support the Syrian Arab combatants in a conflict against the forces led by Kurds in northern Syria.
Since the fall of Assad, Turkey has repeatedly demanded that the Syrian democratic forces allied in the United States (SDF) and the Militia YPG disarming, warning of military action differently. However, the homeless said that even if the Ocalan call was positive, it did not apply to them.
