AM:10:42:12/05/2025
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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has officially announced the end of its armed struggle and declared its dissolution after nearly five decades of conflict with the Turkish state.
In a statement released Monday following its 12th congress, the PKK said it had decided to dissolve its organizational structure and end all activities carried out under the party’s name. The congress was held simultaneously in two separate areas for security reasons and was attended by 232 delegates.
The party emphasized that it had achieved its goal of bringing the Kurdish issue to the table of democratic politics and had fulfilled a historic role in the broader Kurdish struggle.
The PKK was founded on November 27, 1978, by Abdullah Ocalan. Initially rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology, the group began with a congress of just 22 members, and the party name was proposed by Farhad Kurtayi.
This announcement marks a significant turning point in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since the 1980s.