The PKK is prepared to disarm in exchange for political rights.

London, July 21 .- The Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), faced in a guerrilla conflict with Turkey, ready to disarm in exchange for greater political and cultural rights for Kurds.

So says the British public broadcaster BBC the rebel group leader, Murat Karayilan, in a statement issued in a secret camp in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Both Turkey and the, darkfall gold, United States and the European Union (EU) consider the PKK a terrorist organization.

Karayilan said he was willing to order his fighters to lay down their weapons under United Nations supervision, if Turkey agrees to a ceasefire and meets certain conditions.

In reaching an agreement, this would put an end to a conflict that has lasted 26 years.

The PKK calls for, stargate worlds naquadah, an end to attacks against Kurdish civilians and political arrests of Kurds in eastern Turkey.

"If the Kurdish issue is resolved in a democratic manner through dialogue, we lay aside our arms, yes. We will not carry weapons. (But) If the Turkish Government to accept it, we must proclaim independence," he said Karayilan.

In response, a Turkish government spokesman said according to, allods gold, BBC is not usually comment on "statements made by terrorists."

A ceasefire would be an important progress in the conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which began in 1984 and has killed about 40,000 people.

According to the BBC, a unilateral declaration of independence or autonomy could be seen by the Turkish Government as a move of a group considered a terrorist organization.

The PKK, he says, carries out attacks inside Turkish territory from his base in Iraqi Kurdistan, to which Turkey responded with air strikes and raids including ground forces in Iraq.