Kurdish PCC to put weapons on a big step by the end of the conflict in Turkey

After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the Kurdish PCC was banned on Friday to celebrate the symbolic first step in the arrangement of hands.

The disarmament process will begin under severe security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, took this step as “completely disrupting and throwing bloody shackles that were put on our country’s feet.”

About 40,000 people have been killed since the conflict, and the PCC is referred to as a terrorist group in Turkey, the US, the EU and the UK. His disarmament will be felt not only in Turkey, but also in Iraq, Syria and Iran.

A small group of PCC members symbolically post weapons at the ceremony near Suleimania in Iraqi Kurdistan before returning to its bases.

According to security, the exact location is not revealed, although they believe that the participants of the opposition opposition party in Turkey will be there, even if other major Turkish political parties do not.

The disarmament will then continue in the coming months in the points created with the participation of Turkish, Iraqi and regional governments of Kurdistan, BBC Turkish reported.

In the video, a long -term PCC leader Abdullah Ocalan said it was “a voluntary transition from the phase of the armed conflict to the phase of democratic policy and the law.” He was in solitary imprisonment on a small prison island of Imrasly, southwest Istanbul, because he was captured in 1999.

This is not the first attempt at peace involving Turkey and PCC, but it is the best hope that the armed struggle that began in 1984 will end.

Initially, the Marxist group, the Kurdistan Labor Party took up their weapons, calling on an independent state in Turkey.

In the 1990s, they called for more autonomy for the Kurds that make up about 20% of the population.

Ocolan announced the ceasefire in 2013 and urged PCC forces to leave Turkey. The Dolmabahce 2015 agreement was to bring democratic and linguistic rights to the Kurds, but the fragile truce collapsed against the background of destructive violence, especially in cities where the Kurdish southeast is dominated by Diarbakir.

Turkey’s air force is aimed at the PCC bases in the mountains of northern Iraq. Several military companies were also sent to Kurdish forces in Syria.

The Government in Ankara turned off further conversations until the PCC laid hands. This is now on the border.

In October 2024, a well -known nationalist leader and key ally Erdogan called Devlet Baheli began the process described by the government as a “turkey without terror”. He called on a leader who was imprisoned by the PCC, calling for abolition by law. He could pave the way to his possible release from the island, he suggested.

Turkish government launched negotiations with Ocalan via the Prokurd Party Dem, and Then in February came his historic appeal to the PCC blossomedReaded by two deputies who have just returned from a visit to the prison island.

“All groups should put their hands and the PCC must dissolve,” the Ocolon’s letter reads.

The PCC was created mainly because “Democratic policy channels were closed,” he said, but Devlet Baheli and Erdogan’s own positive signals created the right environment.

The PCC followed the leader of Ocalan and announced the ceasefire, and later stated that he “completed his historical mission”: the Kurdish question “now” could be resolved with the help of democratic policy. “

President Erdogan said it was “an opportunity to take a historical step towards the destruction of the wall of terror” and met pro-Kurdish politicians in April.

As the founder of the PCC, Ocalan continues to disappear by many Turks, even after 26 years in solitary imprisonment.

And yet he still plays an important role in the eyes of Kurds.

“I think he really has this authority; it is a major symbol for many Kurds rather than all,” says Joht Jongden, a 41-year-old conflict at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Two days before the PCC was supposed to start disarmament, Ocalan appeared on the video for the first time since he was brought to court more than 20 years ago.

Speaking for seven minutes, he addressed the forbidden group: “I believe in the power of politics and social peace, not weapons. And I urge you to implement this principle.”

Ocalan was in the branded Lacoste Polo shirt, and, according to his unchanged significance, the shirt quickly came out in a viral character, and the sites ended in stock.

After the ceremony on Friday, the scene goes to the Turkey Parliament in Ankara, where the commission will be set up on the next steps for the government.

As the summer break is around the angle, no specific decisions are expected for several months when the deputies vote on the recommendations of the commission, and President Erdogan has the last word.

What happens to Abdullah Ocolon is not yet clear. The government states that its prison conditions may be considered when the process unfolds, but any chance to release into the last stages.

The Ak Erdogan Party began working on a change in the Constitution, and it suggested that this would mean that Erdogan would be able to run for the presidency when it would end in 2028.

The AKP and Pro-Kurdish Dem party deny that there is a link between the peace process and the permutation of the Constitution, but if Erdogan provides support for Dem, it will have a much higher probability to penetrate through changes.

Erdogan is lagging behind in the election, but his main competitor of the opposition, the mayor of Istanbul, Imomoglu, is in prison accused of corruption he denied and more opposition mayors were arrested as part of repression last week.