A senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party commander told AFP the group will take no further steps in the peace process with Turkiye, urging it to advance negotiations and free PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan.

Axar.az informs “All the steps the leader Apo has initiated have been implemented... there will be no further actions taken,” commander Amed Malazgirt told AFP on Saturday in a bunker in the Gandil mountains in northern Iraq.

“From now on, we will be waiting for the Turkish state and they have to be the one taking steps,” he said.

The group has two demands, he added.

“First, the freedom of leader Apo... without this, the process will not succeed. The second is the constitutional and official recognition of the Kurdish people in Turkiye.”