Kurdish P.K.K. Says It Will End Conflict with Turkish State

A group of the Kurdish militia that has fought a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for four decades on Monday that it would be in their arms and dissolve, a decision that could remodel Turkish policies and reverberate at the neighboring counter.

The announcement of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known for his acronym Kurdo, PKK, occurred a few months after his imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, urged the group to disarm and the plate band. In his February message, he said that the group’s armed struggle survived its initial purpose and that greater progress could be achieved in the struggle for Kurds rights through politics.

The PKK was found as a secessionist group that sought to create an independent state for the Kurdish minority of Türkiye. More recent, he said that he looked for greater rights for the Kurds within Türkiye. It is classified as a terrorist organization in Türkiye, the United States and other countries.

In a statement on Monday, the group echoed Mr. Ocalan’s call, saying that “he had taken the Kurdish problem at a level at which it can be resolved by democratic policy, and the PKK has completed its mission in that regard.”

A recent congress of group leaders in northern Iraq had decided to end “activities under the name of the PKK”

The group said that Mr. Ocalan should lead the disharming process, and asked the Parliament of Türkiye to participate. The measure could end a conflict that has gained more than 40,000 lives.

It was not clear what would happen next. Mr. Ocalan has stopped almost isolating in an prison on an island in the Marmara Sea from the capture of Turkish intelligence in 1999. PKK and Pro-Kurds politicians have asked for their release, or at least the loss of restrictions.

Many Kurds in Türkiye have also expressed hope that the end of the conflict will lead the Government to formally expand Kurdish cultural and educational rights, but no new legislation on such issues seems imminent.

The long conflict, in which the PKK militants bombed civil areas and the Turkish army responded with great force, has led to battles launched in the cities of Majority Kurda.

Monday’s announcement is a blessing for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He can affirm that they have done what their predecessors did not do, and the dissolution of the PKK could expand their support among the Kurds, which many analysts suspect that it encodes to change the Constitution and seek a third presidential term.

Mesut Yegen, an academic who has written about Kurds, said he does not have a long and difficult process ahead for Mr. Erdogan. The Turkish leader needs to promote legal changes in the state of militants, among other things, he said.

In a publication on social networks, Omer Celik, spokesman for the Justice and Development Party of Erdogan, said that PKK’s announcement was an important step in Mr. Erdogan’s work to guarantee a “terror free turkey.”

The PKK statement could also influence Kurdish militias, partly in Syria, and change regional dynamics beyond the borders of Türkiye.

The Kurds, an ethnic group of approximately 40 million people, extend in Türkiye, Syria, Iran and Iraq. They were promised but they never granted their own nation for world powers after World War I and since then they have been rebels of rebels against governments that have tried to suppress their cultural identity.

In almost all countries where they live, the Kurds have faced the suppression sponsored by the state of their language and culture.

Mr. Yegen, the expert on Kurds, said that the placement of weapons by the PKK could have important implications throughout the region, and that “Turkey’s relations with the Kurds in Syria and Iraq will be based on cooperation, instead of with condated.”

He added: “It is clear that for a massive change he has opened his leg.”

It was not clear how the decision would affect the hidden PKK bases in the mountainous areas of the Kurda region of Northern Iraq. Türkiye has repeatedly bombarded pkk strengths in northern Iraq, as well as the branch of the group that controls Syria regions of Landaster, qualifying them a terrorist threat near their borders.

Turkish officials have said publicly that the Government did not offer concessions to the PKK to persuade it to disarm. But the officials of the main pro-Kurdo party of Türkiye have expressed hope that the Government would expand cultural and educational rights for the Kurds.

Safak Timur Contributed reports.