The jailed leader of the PKK, Abudllah Ocalan, has reiterated his call on his fighters to lay down their arms in their fight against Turkey.
Pro-Kurdish politician Sirri Sureyya Onder, who visited Mr Ocalan in prison last week, read out a statement by the leader at an event marking the Kurdish Newroz festival.
Mr Ocalan called for a congress to decide on abandoning the armed struggle, in a message heard by hundreds of thousands of supporters at a rally in Diyarbakir.
The leader of the PKK was jailed in 1999 and is serving a life sentence for treason.
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