PKK announces the resolution and end of the armed struggle

The militant workers’ party Kurdistan (PKK) dissolves and ends its decades of armed fight. This was reported by the Firat news agency, which was close to the forbidden,. She published the final declaration of a congress that the PKK held in Northern Iraq last week.

The office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Foreign Ministry initially did not comment on the report when asked by the Reuters news agency.

Since the start of the PKK on the uprising in 1984, more than 40,000 people have been killed in this conflict. It is classified by both Turkey and its western allies as a terrorist association.

The forbidden PKK had declared an immediate ceasefire with Turkey in March after the peace call of her imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. The detained 76-year-old had previously called on his followers to dissolve the PKK.

The goal of the PKK was an independent Kurdish area. Peace talks failed in 2015. In the past, the struggle for Kurdish autonomy focused mainly on the mostly Kurdish southeast of Türkiye. Finally, the focus was on the north of Iraq, where the PKK is based.

The PKK also has influence in Syria with its Kurdish population group. The Turkish military repeatedly occurs against Kurdish militias in the two neighboring countries.

The decision of the PKK should therefore have far -reaching political and security -political consequences for the region. This also applies to neighboring Syria, where Kurdish fighters are allied with the US armed forces.