{"id":27463,"date":"2025-02-28T05:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27463"},"modified":"2025-02-28T05:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:20:52","slug":"turkeys-firebrand-kurdish-leader-announce-end-of-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/turkeys-firebrand-kurdish-leader-announce-end-of-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s firebrand Kurdish leader announces end of rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have far-reaching political and security consequences for the region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">If the PKK&#8217;s leadership heeds its founder&#8217;s appeal, which is not guaranteed, President Tayyip Erdogan would gain a historic opportunity to pacify and develop southern Turkey, where violence has killed thousands of people and devastated the regional economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Meanwhile, Ocalan, now 75, could see his dream of peace during his lifetime realized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">For neighboring Syria, the new administration may be able to assert more control over its Kurdish north and unite a nation fractured by civil war, while it would also remove a constant flashpoint in Kurdish-run, oil-rich northern Iraq where the PKK set up its base two decades ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 md:max-w-[324px] lg:max-w-[752px]\">\n<div id=\"story3-container\" class=\"mt-6 lg:block md:hidden hidden space-y-2 bg-gray-100 py-2\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-center lg:min-h-[250px]\">\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden\">\n<div id=\"story3\" class=\"fuse-slot-mini-scroller\" data-fuse=\"incontent-mrec-1\" data-targeting-pos=\"3\" data-fuse-code=\"fuse-slot-ad-incontent-mrec-1-1\" data-fuse-zone-instance=\"zone-instance-ad-incontent-mrec-1-1\" data-fuse-slot=\"fuse-slot-ad-incontent-mrec-1-1\" data-gpid=\"\/21666581298\/CanberraTimes\/news\/latestnews#single-1\" data-fuse-processed-at=\"667\">\n<div id=\"fuse-slot-ad-incontent-mrec-1-1\" class=\"fuse-slot\" data-google-query-id=\"CIaZ7ZrO5YsDFYagrAIdzt0RXA\">The PKK is deemed a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its armed campaign in 1984 for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">It has since moved away from its separatist goals and instead sought more autonomy for southeast Turkey and greater Kurdish rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">A close political ally of Erdogan proposed four months ago that Ocalan order his fighters to end their armed struggle, a decade after a previous Turkey-PKK peace process collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">In his message, Ocalan urged Turkey to show respect for ethnic minorities, freedom of expression and the right to democratic self-organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Turkey&#8217;s jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have far-reaching political and security consequences for the region. 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