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2025-03-02 The Grand Turk
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PKK agrees to ceasefire, Turkey’s Erdogan says ready for dialogue
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), banned in Turkey, has declared its readiness to agree to a ceasefire, heeding the call of its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan. This was reported by the Turkish TV channel A haber, citing the party's appeal.
"We agree with [Ocalan's] call, with its content. We declare that we will, for our part, observe and fulfill the demands of this call. We declare a ceasefire," the PKK said in a statement.
The Kurdish organization also stressed that their agreement to a ceasefire would be valid on the condition that they were not attacked. The PKK pointed out the importance of Ocalan's participation in disarmament.
"We are also ready to convene a party congress at the leader's request. However, this requires the creation of appropriate security conditions, and Leader Apo (Ocalan's party nickname - Ed.) must personally lead and conduct the congress for its success," the PKK letter states.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the founder of the PKK, Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence, called on his fighters on February 27 to lay down their arms and stop the armed confrontation with Turkey. 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, the PKK founder believes, the situation has changed, since peace and democratic society have become the language of the modern era.
On January 6, the Hürriyet newspaper reported, citing sources, that the new Syrian authorities had demanded that the PKK leadership lay down their arms during negotiations. It was noted that in exchange for the surrender of their arms, the Kurdish representatives demanded that 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, Turkish President Recep Tayyip 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 views the group as a threat to national security, regularly carrying out raids against its supporters at home and operations in northern Iraq and Syria. In January, Erdogan said the Turkish and Syrian armed forces would carry out a large-scale military operation against the PKK if the West made new demands.
Erdogan ready for dialogue, but threatens ‘iron fist’ if PKK disarmament fails
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on Saturday said Ankara is open to compromise and dialogue, but threatened to continue military operations "if the promises given are not kept," after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced a unilateral ceasefire following a call from their nabbed
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leader to disarm and disband.
"If the promises given are not kept and attempts are made to resort to oriental tricks such as constant stalling, deceitful name changing and doing whatever they want, the sin will not be on us. We will continue our ongoing operations, if necessary, until we eliminate the last terrorist, without leaving a single stone on top of another, without leaving a single head on his shoulder," Erdogan said on Saturday, according to Anadolu Agency.
A letter from the imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, was shared with the public on Thursday. In it, he urged the group to disarm and disband. His message has sparked hope for an end to four decades of a conflict that has taken 40,000 lives.
On Saturday, the PKK announced their full support for Ocalan’s message and declared a unilateral ceasefire, reserving the right to self defense. But they warned that in order for peace talks to be successful, "a suitable democratic political and legal foundation must also be established."
Erdogan indicated he is open to peace talks, but with caution.
"Of course, we give priority to discussion, conversation and compromise in resolving our issues, and we continue to do so. From now on, we will continue to observe mutual respect, tolerance and dialogue instead of hate speech, fighting and tension, but we always keep our iron fist ready in case the hand we extend is left in the air or bitten," he said.
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carried out multiple attacks on suspected PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region in the days after Ocalan’s message was released, according to the Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which monitors the conflict.
"Since Ocalan's message, Turkey has bombed the borders of both Duhok and Erbil provinces seven times," CPT member Kamaran Osman told Rudaw on Saturday.
Two strikes targeted Erbil province and the remaining occurred in Duhok province.
"Turkey has bombed Khwakurk once and Khnera once on the Sidakan border in Erbil province," Osman said. "The other five bombardments were in Duhok province. Two of them on Mount Gara and the other three bombardments were in Matin, especially on the borders of the villages of Goharzeh and Kani Balagh."
The PKK has bases in the Kurdistan Region.
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