ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read by Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party.
“As in the case with any modern community and party whose existence has not been abolished by force, would voluntarily do, convene your congress and make a decision; all groups must lay their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself,” Ocalan was quoted as saying.
(Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Huseyin Hayatsever; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)
