A Kurdish group has committed bloody rebellion against the Turkish state, and forty years it will lay down its weapons and end the conflict, a decision that can reverberate among neighboring countries.
The Kurdish acronym of Kurdish, the famous PKK is announced months after the incarcerated leader Abdullah Ocalan urged the group to disarm and disband. In a February message, he said the PKK armed struggle had exceeded its original purpose.
The PKK was originally a separatist group trying to create an independent state for the Kurdish minority in Turkey. Recently, it said it seeks greater rights from the Kurds within Türkiye.
“Take the Kurdish problem to a level that can be solved through democratic politics, and the PKK has fulfilled its mission in that sense,” the group said in a statement on Monday.
The group said Mr Okaran should lead the disarmament process and called on the Turkish parliament to be a part of it.
The decision could end one of Türkiye’s most enduring security issues and bring a major political victory to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
This move may end The conflict claimed more than 40,000 lives.
The PKK declaration may also be against other Kurdish militias, especially in Syria, and move regional dynamics beyond the Turkish border.
The Kurds – one of about 40 million ethnic groups – are distributed in Türkiye, Syria, Iran and Iraq. After World War I, the world powers promised them and since then various rebellions were launched to claim this unfulfilled commitment.
In almost every country they live in, the Kurds face suppression of state-sponsored language and culture.
It is unclear how the decision will affect the hidden Kurbak base in the mountains of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Türkiye has repeatedly bombed PKK strongholds in northern Iraq and the group’s branches that control northeast Syria, threatening terrorist threats near its borders.
Turkish officials have publicly insisted that the government does not disarm the PKK for persuasiveness. But officials from Türkiye’s main pro-Kurdish party expressed their hope that the government will expand the cultural and educational rights of the Kurds.
Safak Timur Contribution report.
