ISTANBUL: Following a call this week from Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, asking them to disband, Kurdish militants have declared a ceasefire with Türkiye on Saturday (1st March, 2025).
PKK executive committee stated: “In order to pave the way for the implementation of leader Apo’s call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today.” It is pertinent to mention here that 75-year-old Abdullah Ocalan directed the outfit to lay down arms and dissolve itself in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkiye, on 27th Feb, 2025 after four decades of fighting the Turkish state.
Attacks by militants were quite a common feature in Türkiye. For instance, on 24th October last year the Headquarters of the state-run-aerospace and defence company, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS), situated 40km from the capital, was attacked.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, informed that due to bomb blast and the ensuing exchange of fire, 5 people lost their lives and 22 got wounded. The attack took place when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was holding talks in Russia with Vladimir Putin.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya took to the X to inform that a male and a female militant where neutralized during the exchange of fire.
Though nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, Turkish Government maintained that the attack was carried out by Kurdish separatists Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and People’s Defense Units (YPG).
Turkish forces retaliated by carrying out airstrikes on 32 PKK/YPG terror targets in northern Iraq and Syria.
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