News Center- The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced on Friday that it had held its 12th Congress in the Medya Defense Zones between May 5 and May 7, 2025 over the “Call for Peace and Democratic Society” by Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and it would publish the final declaration of the congress soon.

 The PKK decided to dissolve itself and end the armed struggle at the congress, the PKK said in the final declaration of the congress on Monday. “We held our congress despite the ongoing clashes, air and ground attacks and siege imposed by the KDP on our areas,” said the PKK. “The congress was held simultaneously in two different areas for security reasons.

According to the final declaration of the congress, the PKK has completed its historic mission on the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question against “the policy of denial and destruction against our people”. At the congress, the PKK decided to “dissolve” itself and “end the armed struggle”.

“Our party, the PKK, emerged as a freedom movement of our people against the policy of denial and annihilation of the Kurds started by the Treaty of Lausanne and the Constitution of 1924 (Turkish Constitution of 1924),” said the final declaration. “It waged a legitimate and just struggle based on the strategy of armed struggle by being influenced from real socialism and adopting the principle of the right of nationals to self-determination. The PKK was shaped amid the strict denial of the Kurds and the policies of genocide and assimilation. It waged a struggle of freedom, starting in 1978, for the recognition of the existence of the Kurdish people and the Kurdish question as the fundamental reality of Türkiye. As a result of this struggle, it became the symbol of the hope for freedom and the search for a life with dignity for the people of the region.”

The final declaration also gave information about why the PKK emerged, its struggle for the rights of the Kurdish people and political developments since 1978.

“The decision made at our congress to dissolve the PKK and end its armed struggle provides a strong basis for permanent peace and a democratic solution,” the PKK said, calling on the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye to play its role with historical responsibility.

The PKK also called on all political parties in the parliament, the government, the main opposition party and civil society organizations, religious groups, democratic media outlets, opinion leaders, intellectuals, academics, artists, labor unions, women-youth organizations and ecological movements to participate in the process to build peace and democratic society by taking responsibility.

“The struggle of the people, women and the oppressed will reach a new level when Türkiye's left-socialist forces, revolutionary structures, organizations and individuals embrace the process started by the Call for Peace and Democratic Society. This will mean achieving the aims of the great revolutionaries, whose last words were ‘Long Live the Fraternity of the Turkish and Kurdish People and a Fully Independent Türkiye!’”