The Kurdish Workers Party officially announced its dissolution

Ankara. The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) that led the armed uprising against the decades Turkish to the government, announced its dissolution and ending the fighting.

She did so after the imprisoned leader PKK Abdullah Öcalan called for such a step at the end of February.

This was reported by Reuters, referring to the Kurdish agency Firat near PKK.

The decision of the PKK based in northern Iraq at the Congress last week was the decision. « 12. Congress of PKK decided to dissolve the organizational structure of the PKK and end its armed struggle methods, » AFP quoted the group.

PKK Öcalan founded in 1978 on the ideas of Marxism and since 1984 led the uprising in the southeast of Turkey. Originally, she tried to create an independent Kurdish state, and later alleviated her requirements for autonomy. Turkey and its Western allies, including the EU and the US, consider it a terrorist organization.

In February, the leader of PKK, who is serving a sentence for treason on the island of Imrali in the Marmar Sea, called for its dissolution. « Curve your congress and decide. All armed groups must fold weapons and PKK must be dissolved, » he wrote in a letter.

Öcalan’s fundamental challenge is part of the peace process between PKK and the Turkish government, which was initiated by Devlet Bahceli, a coalition partner last year President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bahceli is described as a far -right nationalist and suggested that in exchange for the dissolution of the PKK and the termination of its armed activities, Öcalan be conditionally released.

According to Reuters, PKK may have far -reaching political and security consequences for the adjacent region, including neighboring Syria, where Kurdish militias are nearby US allies.