The Kurdistan Labor Party (PKK) today announced its dissolution and the end of the armed struggle after more than four decades of guerrilla warfare against the Turkish state, in response to the appeal on February 27, its founder and historian and historian Abdullah Ocalanwhich has been held in isolation in Turkey for 26 years.

Commenting on the news, Turkish Presidency Communications Director Fahretin Altun said that “Turkey will take the necessary steps to ensure smooth progress towards a country free from terrorism”.

“The announcement of the decision of the autonomist terrorist organization to testify and itself solve it is a clear indication that the” Turkey without terrorism “process, led by our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has gained power and has reached a significant stage,” he said.

This process “is not short -term and shallow” and “all steps will be sensitively and transparently”, stresses the Turkish Presidency’s communications director.

At the same time, the president of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan Nesirvan Barzani today welcomed PKK’s decision to break up and put an end to his armed struggle in Turkey, considering that the decision would enhance stability in the area.

The decision of the Pkk “It demonstrates political maturity and paves the way for a dialogue that favors coexistence and stability in Turkey and the region,” Barzani said in a statement. “It lays the groundwork for a constant peace that will put an end to decades of violence, pain and pain.”

He argued that the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan was ready to support the efforts aimed at guaranteeing the success of “this historical opportunity”.

The Barzani family, which runs the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in power in this autonomous region of northern Iraq, plays a key role in Kurdish affairs and maintains close relations with Turkey.

The PKK, an organization of Turkey’s Kurds, which is considered terrorist by Ankara and its Western allies, has bases of the background in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Turkey also maintains military bases and often conducts air and land operations against the Kurds.