Founded in the late 1970s by Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK took up arms in 1984, beginning a string of attacks against the Turkish state that would cost more than 40,000 lives. The PKK “has decided to dissolve.. and end its armed struggle,” it said in a statement issued a week after its leadership held a […]
It was the first reaction from the PKK after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of his Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and asked it to lay down arms after fighting the Turkish state for over four decades. “To pave the way for the implementation of leader Apo’s call for peace and democratic society, we […]