The leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, arrested, will participate in the work of a subcommittee tasked with overseeing the disarmament of the Kurdish armed group, today announced a high advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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18/09/2026
by
Lusa
O At the beginning of August, the Turkish parliament had adopted a historic law that paves the way for the reintegration of PKK fighters, an important step in the peace process aimed at ending more than four decades of guerrilla warfare that caused some 50,000 deaths, according to Ankara.
Under this process, four subcommittees were set up to oversee the dissolution of the PKK, announced last year in response to an appeal by its historical leader, Abdullah Öcalan.
One of these subcommittees, dedicated to the delivery of PKK's weapons, will welcome Öcalan, although he is not allowed to leave prison, today he declared to the Turkish press Mehmet Uçum, a senior adviser to President Erdogan.
It was a request, among others, of the pro-Kurdish Party, an interested party in the peace process initiated at the end of 2024 by a far-right ally of the Turkish Head of State.
The law adopted at the beginning of August did not specify what fate would be reserved for 77-year-old Öcalan, imprisoned since 1999 under isolation in the prison of the island of Imrali, south of Istanbul, where he is serving a life sentence.