The ceasefire holds a decades -old conflict between Turkey, Kurds

PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan demanded the armistice while he was still locked up in Turkey.

“I call the call to take the weapons and take on the historical responsibility of this call,” said Ocalan in a written statement on Thursday. “All groups have to lie [down] Your arms and the PKK have to dissolve. ”

The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has passed for more than 40 years and demanded an estimated 40,000 lives. The conflict has also influenced several other nations, including Iraq.

“We agree with the content of Leader Ocalan's call and state that we will meet and implement the requirements of the call from our own page,” said the members of the Executive Committee of the PKK in a prepared explanation. “We still explain a ceasefire.”

The PKK Executive Committee said that the ceasefire was to work: “Democratic politics and legal reasons must also be appropriate.”

Ocalan founded the PKK in 1978 and soon moved to war with Turkey when he tried to establish an independent Kurdish state in southern Türkiye.

Kurds make up to 20% of the Turkish population and make up considerable parts of the population in Syria, Iran and Northern Iraq.

The Turkish authorities arrested Ocalan in Kenya in 1999, condemned him to betray for life in prison and only allowed him to have limited contact with others outside of prison.

The hostility was quickly taken into account in August 1984 when PKK -militant killed two Turkish soldiers and mostly continued since then.

A ceasefire was implemented in 2013, but ended two years later when peace talks in relation to the increasing tensions between the PKK and Türkiye had failed.

Ocalan said on Thursday that relationships between Kurds and Turkey had been broken in the past 200 years, but welcomed the opportunity to end the conflict.

“Today the main task is to restructure the historical relationship,” said Ocalan.

The prospects of peace between Turkey and the PKK appeared dark until the past few months, but at least three Turkish delegations have visited Ocalan in the past three months.

The Turkish legislator Devlet Bahceli invited Ocalan to appear in front of the Turkish parliament and announced that he has hired hostility with the Turkish government.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would like to run for a third term in 2028, which would require the Grand National Assembly approval in Turkey.

Turkish law presents a term of two five years for the country's presidency.

In order for Erdogan to be approved to look for a third term, he needs the support of the Grand National Assembly, in which the Kurds have a significant representation.

The recent violence between the PKK and Turkish armed forces could make the current ceasefire more difficult.

The Turkish armed forces have increased the efforts to eliminate Kurdish armed forces and proposed a new leadership in Syria in February to extinguish the Syrian democratic forces listed by Kurds.

The PKK in October took responsibility for an attack in which five were killed in the headquarters of the Turkish aerospace industry in Ankara.