A Kurdish group that has fought a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for four decades on Monday that it would leave their weapons and end the conflict, a decision that could be reverberated at the neighboring counter.
The announcement of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known for his acronym Kurdo, PKK, occurred a few months after his imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, urged the group to disarm and the plate band. In his February message, he said that PKK’s armed fight had survived his initial purpose.
The PKK was found as a secessionist group that sought to create an independent state for the Kurdish minority of Türkiye. More recent, he said that he looked for greater rights for the Kurds within Türkiye.
In a statement on Monday, the group said that it had “brought the Kurdish issue to a level where democratic policy can be resolved, and the PKK has completed its mission in that regard.”
The group said that Mr. Ocalan should lead the disharming process and asked the Parliament of Türkiye to be part of it.
The decision could end one of the most durable security problems in Türkiye and offer a significant political victory to President Rece Tayyip Erdogan.
The movement could end with Conflict that has claimed more than 40,000 live.
The PKK statement could also have a deep influence on Kurdish militias, partly in Syria, and change regional dynamics beyond the borders of Türkiye.
The Kurds, an ethnic group of approximately 40 million, extend in Türkiye, Syria, Iran and Iraq. They were promised their own nation by world powers after World War I and since they launched voluntary rebellions to claim that unfulfilled promise.
In almost all countries where they live, the Kurds have faced the suppression sponsored by the state of their language and culture.
It was not clear how the decision would affect the hidden PKK bases in the mountainous areas of the Kurda region of Northern Iraq. Türkiye has repeatedly bombarded pkk strengths in northern Iraq, as well as the branch of the group that controls Syria regions of Landaster, qualifying them a terrorist threat near their borders.
Turkish officials have publicly insisted that the government offered no concessions to the PKK to persuade it to disarm. But the officials of the main pro-Kurdo party of Türkiye have expressed hope that the Government would expand cultural and educational rights for the Kurds.
Safak Timur Contributed reports.
