What are the implications of the PKK leader's call to disband? | Inside Story

Jailed founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) calls on it to disband. That follows four decades of fighting with Turkiye, costing 40,000 lives. So why's the call coming now and what impact could it have on Turkiye and the region?

Presenter:
Nick Clark
Guests:
Omer Ozkizilcik, Non-Resident Fellow at Atlantic Council’s Middle East Program, Director of Turkish Studies at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies.
H. A. Hellyer, Senior Fellow in Geopolitics, International Security and Middle East Studies at the Royal United Services Institute.
Mohammed Salih, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute, Kurdish affairs specialist.

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Post from Al Jazeera on February 28, 2025

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