A member of the PKK’s youth wing sifts through a weapons cache in the city of Nusaybin, Turkey, on March 1, 2016. Cagdas Erdogan/Getty Images
Abdullah Ocalan, the long-imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has formally announced the end of his group’s decades-long terrorist campaign against the Turkish state and called for a full transition to democratic politics.
“The phase of armed struggle has ended,” Ocalan, who has been held by the Turkish authorities for the past 25 years, said in a video message.
