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Iraqi Foreign Ministry: Ocalan's call is an important step to achieve stability in the region
2/27/2025
The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed, on Friday, the announcement of the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, and his call for the party to lay down its arms, considering this step positive and important in achieving stability in the region.
The ministry stressed in its statement that this initiative represents a very important development in terms of enhancing security, not only in Iraq, but in all areas where there is a presence of PKK militants in the Kurdistan Region and some other cities. It also stressed that political solutions and dialogue are the best way to address differences and end conflicts in a way that serves the interests of all parties and enhances peaceful coexistence.
The Foreign Ministry expressed its support for all efforts aimed at resolving problems through dialogue, hoping to accelerate practical steps to ensure the end of the Kurdistan Workers' Party's carrying of weapons.
It also renewed the Iraqi government's commitment to bilateral relations with neighboring Türkiye, within the framework of historical and geographical ties and common interests, stressing its commitment to the principle of non-interference.
Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) he founded to lay down arms and dissolve itself, in a historic declaration issued in Istanbul after four decades of conflict.
"All armed groups must lay down their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself," he said in the announcement read by a delegation of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) lawmakers who visited him in his prison on Imrali Island off Istanbul earlier on Thursday.
He stressed that he "bears historical responsibility for this call."
Ocalan's long-awaited letter was read in Kurdish and then in Turkish in front of a large photo of him holding a white sheet of paper, in a hotel in central Istanbul, attended by a crowd of journalists and the "Saturday Mothers," Kurdish women who demonstrate every week over the disappearance of relatives by the authorities.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded in 1978 and launched an armed campaign against Ankara in 1984 to establish a Kurdish state. The conflict has left more than 40,000 dead since 1984.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government did not immediately comment on Ocalan's announcement.