Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has made a historic call for his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down their arms and dissolve the group, potentially bringing an end to a decades-long conflict with Turkey that has claimed the lives of at least 40,000 people.
In a statement read by Turkish lawmakers, Ocalan emphasized the importance of reestablishing the historical relationship between Turkish and Kurdish communities, which he described as having been defined by mutual cooperation and alliance for over a thousand years.
