[🇹🇷] Scepticism and cautious hope as PKK takes historic step to disband

[Mainerik]

Date of Event: May 13, 2025

Source : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74ql7evgq7o Short Summary: After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, is ending its war against the Turkish state.

This signals the end of one of the longest conflicts in the world - a historic moment for Turkey, its Kurdish minority, and neighbouring countries into which the conflict has spilled over.

A spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party said it was an important step towards a country free of terror.

But what will the PKK get for disarming and disbanding? So far the government has made no promises – publicly at least.

Sheltering inside a tea shop from a sudden violent hail storm that battered the ancient city of Diyabakir, Necmettin Bilmez, 65, a driver, was sceptical about what might follow.

@Lulldapull @LegionnairE @ThunderCat

 

[LegionnairE]

They are not disarming, they are being legitimized.

 

[Egyptian]

They are not disarming, they are being legitimized.

One can hope.

 

[LegionnairE]

One can hope.

hope is how you get fucked.