Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-Year Insurgency with Turkey

Turkiye welcomes PKK pledge to disband. Why now?

Decision to disband follows decades of attacks punctuated by failed peace talks and a changing political landscape. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source The post Turkiye welcomes PKK pledge to disband. Why now? appeared first on RocketNews.

Restellini: I want to meet Abdullah Öcalan under free conditions

Jean-Pierre Restellini, former expert for the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), said the international community could also play a role in the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question. He emphasized that once the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has clearly renounced armed struggle, the “terrorist” label must be removed without delay.   Following Abdullah Öcalan’s historic “Call for Peace and a Democratic Society” on Fe…

Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey

A Kurdish militant group has officially agreed to disband and halt a 40-year insurgency. Called the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, the decision came in early May following the organization’s 12th Party Congress, in which it was determined that the quest for Kurdish sovereignty could be accomplished politically, and that armed struggle was no […] The post Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency wit…

As is known, the racist Turkish governments, according to Article 66 of the Turkish Constitution, do not recognize the existence of Kurds in Turkey, and consider them all to be Turks, and treat them very badly. Based on this bitter reality, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) emerged.

Turkey, PKK must both change for peace: former militant - Turkish Minute

“When you try and explain peace to people, there is a very serious lack of trust,” said Yüksel Genç, a former militant with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which recently announced the end of its decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state. Talking over a glass of tea in a square in Diyarbakır, the biggest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, this 50-year-old former fighter with long auburn curls is worried about …

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