Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight against the Turkish state.
The group, designated a “terrorist” group by Turkiye, the United States and the European Union, has fought an armed insurgency against Turkiye since 1984, in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
