Kurdish PKK militia says it will heed jailed leader’s peace call and declare ceasefire

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia will heed its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for disarmament and declare an immediate ceasefire, a news agency close to the group cited it as saying on Saturday, in a major step toward ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish state.
The group said it hoped Ankara would release Ocalan, held in near total isolation since 1999, so he can lead a process of disarmament, adding that the necessary political and democratic conditions need to be established for the process to succeed.