Jailed Kurdish Leader Ocalan Asks PKK To Make Peace With Turkey, SDF Says ‘Not Related To Syria’

The jailed leader of Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has made a historic call for the party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict with the Turkish state.A delegation of Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party on Thursday visited the island prison where Ocalan has been held since 1999 and later delivered his statement in nearby Istanbul.The PKK is deemed a “terrorist” organisation by Turkiye and its Western allies.Commenting on the move, ruling AK Party Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala said that his country will be “free of its shackles” if the PKK lays down arms and dissolves.In the first response from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party, Ala said the government expected the PKK to comply with Ocalan’s call. ğan n18oc_world n18oc_crux