Öcalan demands the end of the PKK fight: a step towards reconciliation?

Öcalan demands the end of the PKK fight: a step towards reconciliation?

Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the banned workers' party Kurdistan (PKK) since 1999, has announced a pioneering step: he calls his organization to end the armed fight against Turkey and asks them to dissolve. On Thursday, Öcalan announced this on the Imrali prison island near Istanbul, where he is imprisoned as a trait. With this decision, which is made after more than four decades of a bloody conflict, the fate of the PKK could also change, as well as oe24 , the weapons should be laid down, and called his fans to support this step.