The PKK Kurdish militant group will disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey

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The PKK Kurdish militant radical volition disband arsenic portion of a bid inaugural with Turkey The Kurdish militant radical announced a historical determination Monday to disband and disarm, aft 4 decades of equipped conflict. It comes days aft it convened a enactment legislature successful bluish Iraq.

Youngsters clasp a photograph of the jailed person of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, oregon PKK, Abdullah Ocalan arsenic they stitchery to ticker unrecorded connected a tv surface a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, oregon DEM, delegation members releasing an connection from Ocalan, successful Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Metin Yoksu/AP hide caption

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ANKARA, Turkey — A Kurdish militant radical announced a historical determination Monday to disband and disarm arsenic portion of a caller bid inaugural with Turkey, aft 4 decades of equipped conflict.

A pistillate waves a emblem bearing a representation of the laminitis of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, arsenic radical stitchery successful the Kurdish-majority metropolis of Qamishli successful northeastern Syria to perceive to a connection from the jailed person connected Feb. 27.

The determination by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, oregon PKK, was announced by the Firat News Agency, a media outlet adjacent to the group. It comes days aft it convened a enactment legislature successful bluish Iraq.

In February, PKK person Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned connected an land adjacent Istanbul since 1999, urged his radical to convene a legislature and formally determine to disband, marking a pivotal measurement toward ending the decadeslong struggle that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since the 1980s.

On March 1, the PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire, but attached conditions, including the instauration of a ineligible model for bid negotiations.

The radical has led an equipped insurgency since 1984 that has near claimed tens of thousands of lives. It is listed arsenic a panic radical by Turkey and its Western allies.

Firat quality said the legislature "decided to dissolve the PKK's organizational operation and the extremity equipped struggle, with the applicable implementation of this process to beryllium led and overseen by (Ocalan.) As a result, activities carried retired nether the sanction 'PKK' were formally terminated."

Congress assessed that the PKK's conflict had "brought the Kurdish contented to the constituent of solution done antiauthoritarian politics, frankincense completing its humanities mission."

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