Kurdish rebels (PKK) have called on Turkey to accept a plan their jailed leader is due to announce to end conflicts between both sides, Press TV reported.
"We ... call on the Turkish state and government to respect the political will of the Kurdish people who have sided with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its leader Abdullah Ocalan," a pro-Kurdish news agency reported a PKK statement as saying on Friday.
The PKK 'will support to the end' Ocalan's roadmap for a democratic solution to the conflict, the Firat news agency quoted the statement as saying.
Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) is expected to announce the group's future plans on Saturday.
Ocalan, serving a life sentence on a prison island in northwest Turkey, had been expected to announce his proposals on Saturday, which is the 25th anniversary of the start of an armed campaign against Ankara.
Also on Friday, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country must deal with the problem of Kurdish rebels in Turkey's southeast.
He gave no details of how this could be done, but his government is seeking opposition support for a negotiated settlement to the insurgency.
Kurdish activists and politicians have called on the government to take Ocalan's proposals into consideration but in a newspaper interview last month, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu dismissed the idea, saying the solution to the conflict would come from Ankara.
Ankara categorically rejects dialogue with the PKK, which it lists as a terrorist organization.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the 25-year conflict.
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