Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence, called on his fighters to lay down their arms and end the armed confrontation with Turkey. This was reported by the Turkish government newspaper Daily Sabah.
"I take historical responsibility for this call (for disarmament). All groups (linked to the PKK) must lay down their arms and the PKK must disband," the Turkish publication quotes Ocalan as saying.
According to him, the dissolution of the PKK is necessary because it was created in the last century, during a period when democratic paths were closed. Now, according to Ocalan, the situation has changed, because peace and democratic society have become the language of the modern era.
It was previously stated that the armed forces of Turkey and Syria would carry out a large-scale military operation against the PKK if the West puts forward new demands.
It is not specified what demands the West is talking about. It is also noted that Türkiye did not make efforts in Syria so that “the PKK could continue to exist.”
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on January 6, the Hürriyet newspaper, citing sources, reported that the new Syrian authorities, during negotiations with the PKK leadership, demanded that they lay down their arms. It was noted that the Kurdish representatives demanded that in exchange for the surrender of their arms, they be given a division or army corps in the Syrian army being created and that the oil fields in the north of the country, controlled jointly with the United States, be equally divided.
On December 25, Erdogan said the PKK had no choice but to lay down its arms, vowing otherwise to “bury the Kurdish fighters along with their weapons.”
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK began in 1984. Ankara considers the group a threat to national security, regularly conducting raids against its supporters in the country and operations in northern Iraq and Syria.
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