Kurdish military group said the PKK will oppose Turkey and end

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The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a military group conflict with more than 40 years, said that the region will be dismissed in a historic movement with great political and security effects for the region.

This PKK “Finishing the armed struggle” decision, Kurdish news agency ANF, a PKK congress, which was published on Monday, was closing a PKK congress. There was a group announced the ceasefire On March 1.

The PKK, who was appointed a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies, was linked to the Kurdish forces in Syria. Can facilitate tensions between its decision Turkey Power sharing measures in the United States and Syria.

In 1984, more than 40,000 people were killed in the conflict because the PKK rebel.

If the peace process is successful, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can increase domestic political support, as he currently wants to extend the two decades of government outside the presidential election for 2028.

Congress, the statement came from the PKK struggle brought the Kurdish issue to a settlement point through democratic politics and thus completed his historical mission. “

Ömer Celik, a spokesman for the AK Party leadership, an important step in terms of a “terrorist free Hindushka” called movement ‘”. Added a Writing on social media “If the terrorism ends completely, the door of a new era will be opened.”

In February, the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, which has been arrested on an island near Istanbul since 1999, has called this group since 1999 and called on the disk.

The peace process, a close Erdogan, was supported by a close nationalist politician State Bahçeli.

Negotiations have been carried behind the privacy wall since this day and how the process will continue, the process of the PKK militants and group leaders will be resolved in third countries.

Any concessions that the PKK can be obtained in exchange for the decision is not discounted. The political rights of Turkey’s Kurds, which make up almost five of Turkey’s 90th-mn population, can also be a wider question.

Turkey’s third largest, Kurduncular largest, Kurdish identity and culture in schools, Turkey called on Turkey to recognize the venues of the Kurds in the Southeast of the Kurds to local authorities.

More than one previous peace efforts ended in the last in 2015. However, this decision comes against the background of great changes in both Turkey and a wider region.

Turkish servicemen, the more and more servicemen were leading an effective drone-plate meter that increasingly disappearing from the country and Iraq and Syria. The overthrow of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had an underwater position on the position of the US-fought forces in the North-East in the northeastern Syria.