section_path: History
section_name: History
paragraph_text: History
  
  On October 22, 2024, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), in a surprising change in tone, invited Abdullah Öcalan to speak in the Turkish parliament and dissolve the PKK. On November 26, Bahçeli renewed his invitation. the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) applied to meet Öcalan in İmralı prison, which happened on December 28. On January 22, they visited a second time. On February 27, the DEM Party delegation visited Öcalan for a third time. Later on February 27, 2025, Öcalan ordered the PKK to convene a congress, disarm, and dissolve. On March 1, the PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire. The PKK also claimed that it would obey Öcalan's order and work on implementing it. On April 10, the DEM Party delegation met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The meeting between the DEM Party delegation and Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç, planned for April 18, was postponed to a later date due to the heart condition of the DEM Party İmralı delegation and Istanbul Deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder. On May 3, Sırrı Süreyya Önder died in the hospital. The PKK held its 12th congress between May 5 and 7, and announced four decisions, the end of the political and military conflict of the PKK against Turkey and the transition to a political and legal struggle, the stoppage of all PKK activities with the dissolution of the PKK, the stoppage of all military and political work of the PKK in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, and the responsibility of the PKK Presidential Council for the fulfillment of the dissolution along with the formation of a joint committee for the delivery of weapons. Turkey had guaranteed the security of the congress and discussed agreements with Öcalan, who participated in the congress by call. The result of the congress was sent to Öcalan for approval.