(AFP) — Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.
It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of the group and asked it to lay down arms.
“In order to pave the way for the implementation of leader Apo’s call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today,” the PKK executive committee said referring to Ocalan and quoted by the pro-PKK ANF news agency.
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I was quite pleased when I saw the headline, but this appears to be a unilateral cease fire by the the PKK... so it remains to be seen whether this will change anything in the region.
It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of the group and asked it to lay down arms.
“In order to pave the way for the implementation of leader Apo’s call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today,” the PKK executive committee said referring to Ocalan and quoted by the pro-PKK ANF news agency.
Kurdish PKK Terrorist Group Announces Ceasefire with Turkey
Kurdish PKK terrorists declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband.
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I was quite pleased when I saw the headline, but this appears to be a unilateral cease fire by the the PKK... so it remains to be seen whether this will change anything in the region.
