The Prime Minister Of Turkey, Recep Tayiyip Erdogan (Between)The time has come for the army to move to steer beyond the border (Turkey)Ankara (Reuters)-Turkey's Government supports the shout Kurdishtan Workers Party leader (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, to end fighting
"Abdullah Ocalan's call was a" positive step "," said Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday (21/3).
Erdogan, who was visiting the Netherlands, told reporters that "it is important to practice" in the field.
As soon as peace protests took place, the atmosphere in Turkey and the region will change, said the Prime Minister of Turkey.
If there are no more armed activities of members of the PKK, Turkey security forces will not conduct military operations, Erdogan said, as reported by Xinhua.
On Thursday morning, armed members of the organization called for Ocalan to leave the region, thereby encouraging Turkey's hope for the end of a three-decade insurgency of the Kurdish organization.
"The time has come for the army to move to steer beyond the border (Turkey)," said Ocalan, who is imprisoned, in the letter read by a member of Parliament from pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Pervin Buldan and Sureyya Onder Sirry during the Newroz spring festival in the city of Diyarbakir--the majority of the inhabitants are Kurds.
The PKK, which is inserted into the list of the terrorist organization by Turkey and several other countries, took up arms in 1984 in an attempt to establish the State of ethnic groups in South-Eastern Turkey. Since then, as many as 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the group.
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