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Abdullah Okalan, founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), issued a prison statement calling for the group to dissolve And he laid his hands in his fight against the Turkish state.
The group, a designated “terrorist” group of Turkic, the United States and the European Union, has been fighting the 1984 armed rebellion against Turkish, which killed over 40,000 people.
The peace process collapsed a decade ago and the group has been attacking Turkish since, while the Turkish military has conducted operations in the southeastern part of the country and across the border in Syria and Iraq.
But the chances of rapprochement have increased in the last few months after Devlet Bachley, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, publicly, publicly invite Okalan to end the PKK rebellion in exchange for his releaseS
What did Okalan say?
The PKK leader urged the group to do two things that would effectively end a decades of conflict with Turhi: to put their hands and dissolve.
In a statement read on his behalf by politicians from the Prochtary Party of DEM, Pkala said that the PKK was formed in response to a Turkish state that restricted the rights of the Kurdish part, but that the freedoms have been increasing since then and that the PKK has reached the end of its life, which makes it necessary to dissolve it. “
Forming PKK as a product of the Cold War, the statement of Pacale continues: “PKK was born in the 20th century, in the most abusive era of the history of humanity, among the two world wars, under the shadow of the experience of true socialism and the Cold War in the world.”
Palan's statement in itself is not a formal dissolution of PKK – in his comments he refers to Congress, which will have to be convened to make a decision. However, Okalan is the most influential voice within the PKK and the group follows a political theory formulated by the closed leader.
The video of the Okalan statement was broadcast on large screens in the southeastern part of Turkier, the traditional core for Kurdish people in the country, as a sign of the meaning of his words.
What is the answer from Turkiye?
So far, the Turkish reaction has been positive, descending from the back of the ongoing efforts to persuade Ozalan to support peace.
Speaking immediately after the read statement, Efkan Ala, the deputy chairman of the ruling party for justice and development (AK Party), said: “If the terrorist organization appreciates this call, puts its weapons, dissolves, it will release the Turkish from its shackles.”
But Ala added that Turkier expects the PKK to comply with the call of the Okalan, and the sources told the Daily Sabah that the PKK would “bear the consequences” if it did not “comply with the call of Okalan.”
What is PKK and who is it?
The Okalan, who is 70's, is the founder and ideological figure of PKK. He was captured by the Turkish Special Forces in 1999 and Closed on an island near Istanbulserving a life sentence in seclusion.
Honored by many Kurdish fighters and activists such as visionary, Pacal has transformed the evolution of PKK by a Marxist-Leninist rebel into a broader movement, which is advocating for a democratic Confederalism theory, which he formulates that he adopts democracy based on the community outside the nation-state.
PKK was founded in the 1970s with a Marxist-Leninist and Kurdish nationalist ideology and began an armed conflict against the Turkish state in 1984.
Pazalan and PKK remain influential in the region, with Posalan's scriptures continuing to shape Kurdish political thought.
This latest initiative, if successful, may be one of the “most transformative events that have happened in the Middle East,” Galip Dalai of Chatham House told Al Jazeera.
Does this mean the end of the conflict between PKK and Turkiye?
Okalan's words carry a lot of weight among PKK and its supporters, and to ignore them, would carry risks to the PKK military leadership and may make them responsible for any escalation in the conflict.
But while Okalan remains a revered figure, the PKK leadership is not monolithic. With his prison leader for decades, rival factions and cleavage groups appeared, such as the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK), which can easily not accept his call for disarray.
Yet, the nature of the Turkish government's statements over the last few months has made it clear that there is a desire to end a conflict that has taken thousands of lives.
PKK and his affiliates have made numerous attacks in Turks, some of which have killed civilians. Just recently, in October, an attack claimed by PKK They killed five people At the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industry (Tusas) near Ankara.
Turkier's military forces performed operations against PKK and his branches in the southeastern part of Turkier, Syria and Iraq, and some of his actions were criticized by human rights organizations.
Will this have any influence on the broader region?
PKK has branches and allied groups in areas with Kurdish population in Syria, Iraq and Iran.
In Syria, human protection units (YPG), which Turks says is the local wing of PKK, forms most of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). SDF controls northeastern Syria and Turkie has held several military operations against the group in an attempt to repel her from the Turkish-Syrian border.
PKK has bases in northern Iraq, in areas administered by the semi -autonomous regional government of Kurdistan. Turkey has repeatedly bombed these places and has its own bases in northern Iraq, causing tension with the Iraqi government.
Therefore, the end of the conflict would potentially lead to better regional relations – although in the group's first comments after the statement of Okalan, SDF Mazloum ABDi's head said it did not apply to Syria, even when he welcomed the call to the PKK leader.
