After decades of fighting, the Kurdish group’s imprisoned leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms.

The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party said it is ready to lay down its arms after a call from its jailed leader to do so. The group has waged an insurgency against Ankara for decades.

The decades-long conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) may be approaching a historic turning point after the group’s jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, urged members to lay down arms and dissolve the organization.