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Kurdish resistance group PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey
A crowd watches live a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members releasing an statement from the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, February 27, 2025
A KURDISH resistance group that has waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday.
The announcement comes two days after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK’s) imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called for the group to disarm.
The Firat News Agency, a media outlet close to the group, published the group’s formal statement on Saturday.
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