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One of the PKK's administrators, Murat Karayılan, explained the
condition for the PKK's disarmament and said: "So long as Öcalan is in
prison, even if he gives us the order to lay down our weapons, a guerilla will
not do that."

As can be seen clearly, PKK leaders have admitted openly, even
during the so-called ceasefire period under the name of the Solution
Process, that it was impossible for the PKK to abandon its weapons.
As a matter of fact, in this period, the PKK blamed the existence of

threat risks such as ISIL in Syria and Iraq for its failure to fulfill its
commitment to disarm. In the meantime, it used the attacks against
regions such as Kobane as a pretense and kept on asking the Western
world to send it armaments. The Western world obliged and the PKK
got ahold of more ammunition and arms beyond the Turkish borders
that it can use against the Turkish soldiers; now it's directing these
weapons against Turkish soldiers. What really went on was replacing
their outdated guns with more advanced, high-tech ones. Therefore,
the PKK's disarmament narrative has once again shown itself to be

mere window dressing and it proved this at the earliest opportunity.

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