Kurdish PKK to disband, potentially ending decades of conflict in Turkiye

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Move follows February telephone by jailed person Abdullah Ocalan for radical to laic down its arms.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, oregon PKK, has announced that it plans to disband and disarm successful a determination promising an extremity to decades of struggle with Turkiye.

The determination was announced connected Monday by the Firat News Agency, a media outlet adjacent to the group. Part of a caller bid inaugural with Ankara designed to enactment an extremity to 4 decades of violence, the program to disband comes days aft the PKK convened a enactment legislature successful bluish Iraq.

Following the legislature connected Friday, the radical had said that it had reached “historic” decisions tthat would beryllium shared with the nationalist soon.

Firat reported that a connection by PKK person Abdullah Ocalan outlining his “perspectives and proposals” were work during the congress.

In February, Ocalan – who has been successful jailhouse since 1999 – called connected the radical to laic down its arms and dissolve itself successful a bid to extremity the conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since the 1980s.

The outlawed PKK, which is listed arsenic a violent enactment by Turkey and astir Western states, announced a ceasefire days aboriginal but had acceptable conditions to disband, including the constitution of a ineligible mechanics for bid talks.

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