(1 Mar 2025)
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Diyarbakir, Turkey – 1 March 2025
1. Various of streets of Diyarbakir, people walking
2. Mid of Turkan Duman and Kiymet Soresoglu, mothers of Kurds who have been imprisoned, injured and killed in the conflict
2. Mid of Turkan Duman with a bracelet in the colors of the de facto flag of Kurdistan
3. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Turkan Duman, Kurdish woman:
“We do not trust them (the state), they said the same things before, nothing has changed. Twelve years ago they said peace, peace, peace. Then there was a so-called ceasefire and then we saw what happened. Two of my brothers were martyred in Lice. That is why we do not trust them. But we want peace. Peace so that no more blood is shed, it is a sin. But they do not stop.”
4. Mid of Duman and Soresoglu
5. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Kiymet Soresoglu, Kurdish woman:
"We will comply with whatever he (Abdullah Ocalan, PKK’s imprisoned leader) said. There is not a single inch of land left in Kurdistan where the blood of martyrs has not been shed. If they tell us to lay down our weapons without expecting anything in return, we, the guerrillas and mothers of martyrs, will not accept this. We would be the ones that would take the weapons of our children and continue the struggle. When the call (by Ocalan) was read the other day, many mothers fainted."
6. Close of Soresoglu
7. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Kiymet Soresoglu, Kurdish woman:
"We are afraid. Of course we want peace to be established. We are afraid because they make plans or play a trick. I wonder what kind of plans they will make? That is why we do not trust them. No matter who it is, be it Turkish, Arab or Circassian, we do not consent, we do not want a single mother to shed tears. The mothers of soldiers, police, guerrillas and martyrs should not cry. We say enough is enough."
8. Wide of Soresoglu and Duman
9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Vahap Coskun, Lecturer at Dicle University Law Faculty:
“It is possible to say that there is an agreement between Ocalan and the PKK on this issue. As a requirement of this, the PKK took a stance in a very short time and stated that it agreed with the content of what Ocalan said and stated that it would take action to fulfill the requirements of this and declared a ceasefire as a first step. Therefore, a very high threshold has been crossed in terms of the disarmament in the Kurdish issue of Turkey.”
10. Close of Coskun
11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Vahap Coskun, Lecturer at Dicle University Law Faculty:
"First, the PKK needs to hold a congress and make this dissolution decision official. In my opinion, this will not take a long time. Unlike the last solution process, this solution process is being handled with utmost sensitivity regarding the use of time."
12. Wide of Coskun
STORYLINE:
Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday, in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm.
The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, comes against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, including the reconfiguration of power in neighboring Syria after the toppling of President Bashar Assad, the weakening of the Hezbollah militant movement in Lebanon and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has led to tens of thousands of deaths since it began in 1984.
The ceasefire is the first sign of a breakthrough since peace talks between the PKK and Ankara broke down in the summer of 2015.
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