The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdulá Öcalan, has called the group to depose the weapons and dissolve after about four decades of Insurgency against the authorities of Türkiyeaccording to a message broadcast this Thursday by the Prokurdo Party Popular Party for Equality and Democracy (DEM).
“As is the case in any modern community and party whose existence has not been abolished by force, it must do so voluntarily,” said Öcalan, imprisoned in the Imrali prison, in a statement read during an act called For the Prokurdo match to make the announcement.
“I ask that a Congress be convened to adopt the decision, all groups must depose weapons and the PKK must dissolve,” he said, before stating that there is “an adequate” climate “for this appeal, whose “historical responsibility” assumes, according to the text, whose reading has been broadcast by DEM himself in social networks.
The DEM himself, who before a new visit this Thursday to Imrali had advanced in his account on social network X that the planned announcement “I could mark the beginning of a new peace process“He recently said that Öcalan would make” a historical appeal “with the aim of achieving” an exhaustive and permanent solution to the Kurdish matter and for the construction of a democratic Türkiye. “
The DEM is mediating in conversations between the authorities and the PKK, in an effort to end the conflict. In this context, delegations of the party have to Öcalan in the Imrali prison, the last of which took place this Thursday, where Complete life imprisonment After being arrested in 1999 in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi.
The Turkish government and the PKK, a group founded in 1978 that rose in arms six years later, already started in 2013 a process of peace conversations, although they collapsed in 2015 and were followed by a burst of confrontations in the areas of majority Kurda in the southeast and east of the country.
While the PKK formulated after its foundation an appeal to the creation of an independent state, currently advocates greater autonomy In Kurda majority areas, located mainly in the east and southeast of the country, part of what is considered the historical Kurdistan, which also extends to parts of Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Source: Lasexta
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