“A few days ago our freedom movement withdrew all remaining forces from Turkey that posed no risk of armed confrontation. This is intended to leave the AKP [Justice and Development Party] government with no opportunity to put forward pretexts or use them to justify its inadequate approach to the process,” the group said in a statement carried by the PKK-affiliated ANF news agency.
The PKK, which dissolved itself and decided to lay down arms in May 2025 following a call from its leader Abdullah Ocalan, announced in October of the same year that it would withdraw all its remaining fighters from Turkey. Ocalan has been imprisoned on Turkey’s Imrali island since 1999.
In Thursday's statement, the group also announced the evacuation of “four war tunnels and positions” on Mount Metin, northeast of the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, near the Turkish border, “so that the Turkish state cannot regard them as a threat.”
“In doing so, we have fulfilled all the requirements of our strategy to end the armed struggle against Turkey and continue the struggle through democratic and political means,” the statement added.
The PKK has used several names since its dissolution, with its latest statement issued under the name “The Kurdish Movement Leadership.”
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