Why has PKK leader Ocalan called on group to disarm and dissolve?

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Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his militant group, the PKK, on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade-long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, with far-reaching implications across the Middle East. France24 correspondent from Ankara, Jasper Mortimer, tells us more.