NEW YORK, United States - The United Nations has welcomed the latest “historic” steps taken by the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to end their decades-old conflict, a UN spokesperson said earlier this week.
“There have been historic steps taken between the government of Turkiye and the PKK. We hope that these talks and this discussion will evolve in a way that is mutually beneficial to both, but also beneficial to all people in Turkiye and the broader region,” Stephane Dujarric, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' spokesperson, told Rudaw during a press briefing on Monday.
PKK announced in mid-May that it had decided to dissolve itself and end its armed struggle against the Turkish state, nearly three months after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to shift from armed struggle to a political path.