The PKK announces its dissolution and the end of its armed struggle – Liberation

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced its dissolution on Monday and the end of more than four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the Prokurd Anf agency reported.

« The 12th PKK congress decided to dissolve the organizational structure of the PKK and end the armed struggle method »announced in a statement the Kurdish armed group, which said earlier that she had gathered in congresses last week.

On February 27, the historic chief of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, had called for his movement to lay down arms and put an end to a guerrilla warfare which has left more than 40,000 dead since 1984. This call from Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned for 26 years on the prison island of Imrali, off Istanbul, was following a mediation initiated in the autumn by the principal of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nationalist Devlet Bahçeli, via the prokurd party Dem.

The PKK had responded favorably on March 1 to the call of its historic chief, announcing an immediate cease-fire with the Turkish forces. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan then considered that Abdullah Öcalan’s call was a « Historical opportunity » For the Turks and the Kurds, which, according to certain estimates, 20 % of the 85 million inhabitants of Turkey.

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