Every previous attempt at negotiation-the ceasefires of 1993, 1999, and 2013-has ended not in Kurdish liberation but in greater repression.
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“The PKK’s 12th Congress decided to dissolve the PKK’s organizational structure and end the armed struggle, with the practical process to be managed and carried out by Leader Apo [Abdullah Ocalan ..”,
March 2nd….
“The announcement of a ceasefire by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (and the intention to dissolve disarm and disband following Ocalan’s call) should be heralded as a seismic moment in the modern history of resistance movements, yet beneath the diplomatic formalities and cautious optimism lurks a far more sinister truth-this is not a triumph of peace, but an orchestration of submission.
A war waged for over four decades, fuelled by the unyielding will of a people who have been denied, erased, and slaughtered, is now being dismantled at the behest of the very state that has waged an unrelenting campaign of annihilation against them.
The imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, once the architect of the most formidable Kurdish insurgency, has now called for its dissolution, a move that reeks not of ideological evolution but of coercion, isolation, and calculated political expediency.
The world will praise this as the end of bloodshed, a necessary step towards reconciliation, but history will record it as yet another betrayal in a century-long catalogue of false promises, broken treaties, and unpunished atrocities against the Kurdish people.
To the untrained observer, the PKK has long been cast as an irritant to Turkish sovereignty, a violent and inconvenient force that defied the global order of neatly defined nation-states.
PKK were NOT terrorists! Erdogan rejected Ocalan’s Peace Plan, sabotaged their Truce. bombed their cities…thefreeonline.com/2019/Turkey Vows To Continue Military Operations As PKK Disarms (https://southfront.press/turkey-vows-to-continue-military-operations-as-pkk-disarms/)
Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense said on May 15 that it will continue to conduct operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in regions where the group is present until it is “certain” the “threat” is removed. But members of every single Kurdish and leftist group have been jailed for allegedly ‘supporting the PKK’ even by singing in Kurdish, and this ‘witch hunt’ could go on forever. Earlier in the week, the Kurdish guerilla group announced that it would dissolve itself and end a decades-long conflict with Turkey. The Turkish military will “continue to act in the regions used by the separatist PKK terrorist organization with determination until it is certain the region is cleared and will no longer pose a threat to Turkey”, a ministry spokesman said in a briefing.The spokesman referred specifically to “land search and scan activities, the detection and destruction of caves, shelters, mines and hand-made explosives”.👉Read More HERE (https://southfront.press/turkey-vows-to-continue-military-operations-as-pkk-disarms/)
But to those who have traced the scars of history across the bodies of Kurdish villages razed to the ground, families massacred in the name of nationalist purity, and a culture suffocated under the suffocating weight of enforced assimilation, the PKK was never merely an armed insurgency.
It was a defiant answer to a genocidal campaign of erasure.
The so-called Turkish Republic, built upon the Kemalist doctrine of unyielding nationalism, embarked on a mission not just to suppress the Kurdish identity but to erase it from the annals of existence itself.
When the Treaty of Sevres in 1920 offered the Kurds the promise of statehood, it was swiftly undone by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which instead legitimised the violent partitioning of their lands among Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
Kurdish names were stripped from maps, their language was banned, their mere existence was reduced to the derogatory moniker of ‘Mountain Turks,’ and any attempt at resistance was met with fire and steel.
When Xenophon chronicled the Carduchi-believed to be the ancestors of the Kurds-he wrote of a people who defied the Persian Empire, a people whose spirit was untameable, whose warriors fought not for conquest but for survival.
It is a tale that has echoed through time, from the 17th-century verses of Ehmede Xani’s ‘Mem u Zin,’ a Kurdish love story bound by fate and oppression, to the modern-day insurgency that dared to carve out a sanctuary of self-governance from the ashes of war in Rojava.
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The PKK emerged as the latest incarnation of this defiance, an armed manifestation of a nation that had been dismembered but refused to be buried. It fought not because it sought war, but because war had been declared upon it for generations.
Ocalan’s transformation from a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla to a proponent of ‘democratic confederalism’ was not a mere ideological shift; it was an adaptation to the reality of an unachievable Kurdish state, a pragmatic embrace of decentralised governance in a world that would never allow an independent Kurdistan to emerge.
His calls for gender equality, environmental sustainability, and local governance through communes were revolutionary, yet they were met not with dialogue but with imprisonment.
Since 1999, he has been held in the cold, unyielding isolation of Imrali Island, where his words are no longer his own but those of a captive forced to dictate the terms of his own movement’s demise.
This ceasefire is not an act of agency; it is an orchestrated disarmament designed to cripple Kurdish resistance permanently, while the Turkish state strengthens its grip through mass arrests, cultural subjugation, and military incursions into Kurdish territories.
The West, in its infinite hypocrisy, has played both executioner and enabler in this farce. The United States and the European Union, which have designated the PKK a terrorist organisation, simultaneously armed and supported its Syrian affiliate, the YPG, in the war against ISIS.
Kurdish fighters, once hailed as the vanguard of civilisation against the barbarity of the Islamic State, have now been discarded, their sacrifices rendered irrelevant in the face of geopolitical convenience.
Washington and Brussels will celebrate this ceasefire as a step towards stability, but what they truly celebrate is the silencing of a movement that dared to challenge the nation-state’s monopoly on legitimacy.
The PKK is branded as terrorist not because it engaged in war, but because it fought against an ally of the West. Had history unfolded differently, had the Kurds possessed oil-rich lands or strategic economic leverage, the narrative would have been rewritten, and the PKK would have been lauded as freedom fighters, much like the armed movements of Kosovo, Ukraine, or even Israel in its early years.
Turkey, under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has no intention of honouring Kurdish aspirations.
It has learned well from its Ottoman predecessors that a ceasefire is merely a pause, a tactical manoeuvre to weaken the enemy before crushing it with renewed force.
Every previous attempt at negotiation-the ceasefires of 1993, 1999, and 2013-has ended not in Kurdish liberation but in greater repression.
Kurdish political parties are systematically dismantled, their leaders imprisoned, their supporters labelled as terrorists by virtue of their ethnicity.
The cities of Diyarbakir, Cizre, and Nusaybin have witnessed unspeakable state violence, their streets turned into war zones under the guise of counterterrorism.
To lay down arms in such a context is not an acceptance of peace but a surrender to an enemy that has shown no mercy and will offer none in return.
The tragedy of this moment is not simply the cessation of hostilities; it is the erasure of a movement that, for all its flaws, was the only force that forced the world to acknowledge the Kurdish question. .
Without the PKK, who will challenge the Turkish war machine as it obliterates Kurdish autonomy in Rojava?
Who will stand against the Iranian regime as it crushes Kurdish dissent within its borders?
Who will remind the world that a people denied their homeland will never know peace?
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The world may celebrate the silencing of the PKK’s guns, but it does so in wilful ignorance of the greater war that continues-the war on Kurdish identity, culture, and existence itself.
Ocalan’s call for the dissolution of the PKK will be paraded as a victory for Erdogan, for Turkish nationalism, for the preservation of the fragile order imposed upon the region by Western imperialists a century ago.
But those who have studied history, those who have traced the cycles of oppression and resistance, will recognise this for what it truly is-an illusion.
The Kurdish question does not end with a ceasefire. It does not end with the imprisonment of a leader. It does not end with the dissolution of an armed movement.
The spirit that has endured since Xenophon’s Carduchi, since the rebellions of Sheikh Said and Seyid Riza, since the trenches of Rojava, will not be extinguished by a mere declaration.
The PKK may dissolve, but the Kurdish struggle will remain, shifting its form, finding new expressions, and waiting, as it always has, for the next battle to come”..
https://slguardian.org/ceasefire-of-betrayal-the-manufactured-surrender-of-kurdish-struggle/
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