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FILE - 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. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu, File)
ANKARA – 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.
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 decades-long 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.
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