The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said T\u00fcrkiye should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group’s “chief negotiator” for any future talks after a decision to disband.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Kurdish group, blacklisted as a “terrorist” organization by Ankara and its Western allies, told AFP in an interview on Monday that T\u00fcrkiye has not yet provided guarantees for a peace process, and expressed objection to exiling PKK members.<\/p>\n
In recent months, the PKK has made several historic decisions, starting with announcing a ceasefire and ultimately declaring on May 12 its dissolution, ending a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state that cost more than 40,000 lives.<\/p>\n
The group’s moves followed an appeal by Ocalan, made in a letter from Istanbul’s Imrali prison island where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999.
\nZagros Hiwa, spokesman for the PKK’s political wing, told AFP in a written interview that “as an organization which has waged military struggle for 41 years, we have decided to dissolve and put an end to armed struggle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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