[arista]

PKK
viewed as Terrorists
have now stopped.

But not in Syria.

Their Leader in Jail in Turkey
instructed them to disband
a few days ago.


[A Kurdish militia has declared
a ceasefire in its 40-year insurgency
against Turkey after its imprisoned
leader called for the group to disarm
and dissolve earlier this week.

“We are declaring a ceasefire to be
effective from today on.
None of our forces will take armed action
unless attacked,”
the executive committee
of the Kurdistan Workers’
party (PKK) said in a statement.

The announcement followed a call from
the jailed PKK founding member
Abdullah Öcalan earlier this week,
signalling a desire to end an armed
insurgency that has lasted
for more than 40 years
across south-eastern Turkey, Syria,
Northern Iraq and into neighbouring Iran.
Öcalan, 75, has been imprisoned on an
island south of Istanbul since being captured
by Turkish security forces in Kenya in 1999.

“I am making a call for the laying down of arms,
and I take on the historical responsibility
for this call,” he said in a letter read out
to a jubilant crowd of allies in Istanbul.
“All groups must lay down their arms and
the PKK must dissolve itself.”]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-years-kurdish