ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the banned militant group.

Now, PKK’s founder, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on Kurdish fighters to lay down their arms. However, it remains unclear how effective his plea will be and what, if anything, the Turkish government is offering the group in exchange for ending the fighting.

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state.