Aamna Aamna 
PKK declared on Saturday a peace truce with Turkiye after their leader Abdullah Ocalan from prison urged the group to disband its 40-year armed conflict. The PKK executive committee stated as published by the ANF news agency that they declared peace and nonviolent society terms effective starting today to support their imprisoned leader’s peace action against the government.
The committee operating in northern Iraq stated clearly that their forces will not start armed action unless they are attacked first. The PKK wants to host a congress about possible disbandment subject to better prison treatment of leader Ocalan leading the process.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the Ocalan declaration as an important time to make peace succeed. Our democracy will provide more room for political activity once we remove terrorist threats and militaries from the scene Erdogan assured. Since the PKK declared its homeland objective in 1984 the conflict has taken more than 40,000 lives. As a terrorist group marked by all three of the named organizations Turkiye, United States, and European Union the PKK defends Turkey’s Kurdish minority who form 20 percent of its population of 85 million people.
