Kurdish militants who spent a 40-year rebellion in Turkey in Turkey have declared an trial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Government, two days after their closed leader called the group disarm.
Announcement of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK comes to the background Basic changes in the regionincluding the reconfiguration of power in neighboring Syria after overturning President Bashar Assadweakening The militant movement of Hezbollah in Lebanon AND Israel-Hama War in Gaza.
The conflict between Turkey and PKK has led to tens of thousands of death since it began in 1984. The ceasefire has been the first sign of breakthrough since the peace negotiations between PKK -Ai Ankara interrupted in the summer of 2015.
The PKK Declaration was published on Saturday by Firat News Agency, a media outlet near the group. He was called the leader of the rebels, Abdullah Father’s father, who had closed Turkey since 1999.
“Today we proclaim a ceasefire fire so that the path to implement the call of Apom leaders for peace and the Democratic Society will be implemented. None of our forces will take armed actions unless attacked,” it is said, referring to the fatherly by his nickname.
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On Thursday, the delegation of Kurdish politicians announced the invitation of the father -in -law that PKK lay his hands and dissolved after visiting him at his island prison.
The White House praised the call for peace, CBS News reported earlier This week.
In his statement, the Executive Board of the PKK said that the invitation of the fatherly indicated that “the new historical process began in Kurdistan and in the Middle East.” Kurdistan refers to parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, which are inhabited by Kurds.
Although stating that “he will comply with and implement the call requirements on our part,” PKK emphasized that “democratic policy and legal basis must also be suitable for success.”
The father -in -law’s call came because the main pro -Kurdish political party in Turkey faced pressure, with several of his mayors removed from his duties in recent months and replaced by the government named.
PKK also urged the father -in -law to be released from the prison of Imra, located in the sea of Marmara, “to” personally directly and execute a “party congress that would lead to the militants laid their hands.
The peace initiative between the Turkish State and the PKK, which Turkish and its Western allies consider the terrorist organization, launched Erdogan’s coalition partner, Devlet Bahceli, the ultimate right-wing politician who suggested that the father could approve of conditional release in October, with a group of violence.
Berkay Mandiraci, the older analyst of Turkey with International crisis group Think Tank, he told CBS News that the peace agreement between the Turkish government and the PKK could “remove this long-time thorn in bilateral relationships”, which could bring with it “many dividends for Turkey.”
Erdogan said the “new phase” was in the peacetime efforts in Turkey.
“There is an opportunity to take a historic step towards the demolition of the terror wall that stood between the (Turkish and Kurdish peoples’)),” 1,000-year-old fraternity, “Erdogan said on Friday.
The first response of the Government to the end of the fire came from Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz. “The new phase is registered in the goal of turkey without terror … We hope that this opportunity will be used, this effort will be concluded quickly and successfully,” he announced on X.
Some believe that the main goal of the effort is to reconcile that the Erdogan government receives Kurdish support to a new constitution that would allow him to remain in power after 2028, when his term is over.
Bahceli openly called to the new constitution, saying that it was crucial for the future of Turkey to remain in power. Erdogan and Bahceli allegedly seek parliamentary support from the Prokurdish People’s Party for equality and democracy, or DEM.
“Next week, there will be a number of meetings, including civil servants and politicians, and many things will become clearer and more specific. We hope that everything will be decorated in the next three months,” said Sureyya Onder, one of the DEM members who visited the father -in -law on Thursday.
The leader of Syrian democratic forces led by the United States, said the father-in-law’s call for a truce does not apply to his group in Syria.
Father (75) has a significant influence in the Kurdish movements despite his 25-year prison, during which PKK led top personality that fled and found a shrine in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
But it seems that a decade of fighting has “weakened” PKK, Mandiraca said. “The Turkish army drove a group from the Turkish southeast and pressed it deep into the steep and relentless mountain of northern Iraq,” he said.
In recent years, PKK has been limited to isolated attacks within Turkey, as the Turkish army, supported by armed drones, has increasingly pushed the PKK rebels across the mountain border into Iraq.
The leader of Syrian democratic forces led by the United States, said the father-in-law’s call for a truce does not apply to his group in Syria.
In Syria, the Kurdish fighters have to do with PKK-Bili involved in intensive fighting with Turkish forces on the field.
The Turkish government, however, says that all Kurdish groups are claimed to be related to PKK – either in Turkey, Syria or Iraq – must be dissolved.
