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PKK Urges Turkiye to Free Ocalan to Advance Peace Process
The PKK has ceased further peace efforts until Abdullah Ocalan is freed and Kurds receive constitutional recognition, after symbolic disarmament steps, a commander said.
- On Saturday, Amed Malazgirt, senior Kurdistan Workers' Party commander, told AFP from a bunker in the Qandil mountains, "All the steps the leader Apo has initiated have been implemented... there will be no further actions taken."
- In May, the PKK renounced armed struggle and staged a ceremony where 30 fighters burned their weapons, while last month and earlier this month the group withdrew forces from Turkish soil and a key border area.
- The PKK outlined its conditions, saying the group has two demands: freedom of Abdullah Ocalan and constitutional recognition of Kurds, adding, `We have committed to not using weapons against the Turkish state`.
- Earlier this week, Turkish lawmakers from the cross-party commission visited Ocalan, while Ankara has set up a parliamentary commission to prepare political integration of the PKK and its fighters.
- With a rear base in northern Iraq, Serda Mazlum Gabar said, "Therefore, we can continue the struggle with different methods, but the guerrilla does not end".
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The Kurdish guerrillas of the PKK will not go further in the peace negotiations with Ankara, considering that it is Turkey's turn to act and release its historic leader Abdullah Öcalan, said one of its commanders to the AFP.
·Paris, France
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