Öcalan calls for the end of the PKK fight against Türkiye

He asked the prohibited workers’ party in Kurdistan (PKK) to To put down weapons and dissolveas the Pro-Kurdish party announced that on Thursday in Istanbul. She referred to a letter written by Öcalan from which she quoted.

Peace talks failed: 40,000 dead so far

The Öcalan, born in 1949, has been in one since 1999 Jail On the island of İmralı south of Istanbul. He founded the PKK in 1978 in the province of Diyarbakır in the southeast of Türkiye as Marxist -inspired organization. Their original goal was to build a socialist Kurdish state for the people suppressed in Turkey, whose relatives also live in Syria, Iraq and Iran.

The militant group has been fighting since 1984 Against the Turkish stateMore than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. The EU and the United States also classify the PKK as a terrorist organization. In 2015 peace talks failed. In the past, PKK’s struggle for Kurdish autonomy focused mainly on the mostly Kurdish southeast of Türkiye. Today the focus is on the north of Iraq, where the PKK is based.

Europe is considered a “resting and retreat area”

According to the latest Austrian constitutional protection report in 2023, the PKK in Austria recently focused primarily on the financial and logistical support of the mother organization. Customs events, for example, for the Kurdish New Year Newroz, are therefore often politically shaped and were visited by thousands of people. Europe applies “Primarily as a resting and retreat area”. The Directorate of Storage Protection and Intelligence Service (DSN) also repeatedly records starting points between the local left -wing extremism and the PKK. In Austria, the public display of the symbol of the organization is included Administrative penalty proven.