Skepticism and careful hope when PCC makes a historic step to dissolve

After 40 years, when 40,000 people were killed and the Kurdistan Labor, PCC, the PCC, stopped its war against a Turkish state without consolidating the Kurdish Motherland.

This signals the end of one of the longest conflicts in the world – the historical moment for Turkey, its Kurdish minority and neighboring countries in which the conflict overwhelmed.

Presidential Tayep Erdogan, a press secretary of the Presidential ruling party, said it was an important step to a terrorist country.

But what will the PKK get to disarm and dissolve? Until the government has made promises – at least publicly.

A shelter in a tea store from a sudden violent storm that beat the ancient city of Diabakir, a 65 -year -old billimeth driver, was skeptical about what he could follow.

“They (the government) have been cheating on us for millennia,” he said.

“If I get an ID in my pocket, saying that I am Kurdish, I will believe that everything will be resolved. Otherwise I don’t believe it.”

Sitting next to a small woven stool, mehmet, 80 -year -old EC, had a different appearance.

“It came late,” he said.

“I would like it to happen ten years ago. But still anyone on any side who stop this bloodshed, I greet them,” he said, throwing the top of his flat hat.

“This conflict is a brother on his brother. The one who dies in the mountains (PCC) is ours, and the soldier (from the government) is ours.

“We all lose, Turks and Kurds.”

He wants amnesty for PCC fighters – like many here – and release prison Kurdish politicians.

“If all that happens, it will be a beautiful world,” he said.

In this majority of Kurdish cities in the southeast of Turkey – the actual capital of the Kurdish capital – we found a muted response to the PKK announcement.

The city was a terrible and rebuilt conflict.

Turkish troops and PCC fought in the heart of Diarbakir in 2015. You can still see the rubble buildings that smoothed the Turkish army.

Many locals told us that they welcomed peace, either about him, and did not want more deaths – Turkish or Kurdish.

“Nobody has achieved anything,” said Ibrahim, 63, drinking tea in the shadows of high city walls, which guarded Diabakir from Roman times.

“There is nothing on this side and on this side. There are no winners.”

The conflict ranged from the mountains of the northern Iraq – which became the PCC headquarters in recent years – to the largest cities in Turkey.

Outside the Istanbul football stadium in 2016, the PCC branch conducted a double bombing, killing 38 police officers and 8 civilians. A lot of Kurds and Turks hope this is the end of the dark chapter that took 40,000 lives

The decision of the PCC laid hands, followed by his leader in prison Abdullah Ocolon, who stated that “there was no alternative to democracy.”

As long as the 76-year-old guy remains in his cell in the Isle Istanbul, where he has been held since 1999.

For his supporters, he remains a heroic figure who put his business on the global agenda. They want it to be released.

Among them are 47, menis. She insisted that his release became the key to a new dawn for the Kurds, which make up up to 20% of the Turkish population.

“We want peace, but if our leader is not free, we will never be free,” she said.

“If it is free, we will all be free, and the Kurdish problem will be solved.”

It is surrounded by family photos of loved ones who died for the fight for the PCC – which is classified as a terrorist organization Turkey, the United Kingdom, the USA and the EU.

She lost five relatives, including her brother and her eldest son Zindon.

He joined the PCC at the age of 17, and three years ago was dead at 25, killed in a Turkish aircraft.

Menis’s eyes are filled with tears when she tells how he helped her in homework.

His way may have been reflected from birth.

“We called it Zindan (that is, the cell) because his father was in prison when he was born,” she told us.

On the wall hanging one big photo shows Zindana, along with his brother Berksvendan, who followed his footsteps “to the mountain” to the PCC when he reached 17 years.

BerkeSwanden is now 23 years old. His mother did not know if he was alive or dead until he sent his family a photo of himself during Ramadan in March.

Menis hopes her survivor’s son can return.

“I hope BerkeSven and his friends will come home. As a mother, I want peace. Let there be no killings. Not enough suffering for everyone?”

But do she believe that there can be peace between Turkey and Kurds?

“I believe in us, in Oalan and our nation (Kurds),” she said firmly.

“The enemy (Turkish authorities) made us not believe in them.”

However, the pro-Kurdish political parties have some leverage.

Erdogan needs support so that he can run for a third term in the presidential post, which is paid in 2028.

For their part, in recent years, the Turkish military has suffered greatly when leaders and militants hunted for war in drones.

And regional changes in Iran and Syria mean that a group of militants and its branches have less freedom in operation.

Both sides have their reasons to make a deal now. This may be a reason for hope.