It is a historic opportunity to tear down the wall of terrorism that has stood between the thousand-year-old brotherhood of the Turkish and Kurdish peoples, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It was on Thursday that the 75-year-old imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, came with the message: "I urge to lay down arms and I take on the historical responsibility for this appeal."
Öcalan, who co-founded the movement in 1978, has been held in isolation on a prison island outside Istanbul since 1999.
It was from there that he came with the announcement to dissolve the PKK, and thus end the several decades-long conflict with Turkey that has cost tens of thousands of people their lives.
Members of the pro-Kurdish party DEM read out the statement from Öcalan, after visiting him in prison: "All armed groups must lay down their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself."
Öcalan's appeal, however, does not concern the Kurdish-led forces in Syria (SDF), said its leader Mazloum Abdi on Thursday.
Omer Celik, spokesperson for Erdogan's ruling party AKP, does not agree.
Regardless of whether they are called PKK, YPG or PYD, all factions of the terrorist organization must be dissolved, says Celik.
We are talking about a complete dismantling of the organization and its elements in Iraq and Syria.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded in 1978 as a Marxist party.
The movement's goal was a Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey and adjacent parts of neighboring countries.
In 1984, the PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in the fight for independence.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU, and the USA.
Turkey has, among other things, put forward demands for tougher action against the PKK in Sweden in order to approve Sweden's NATO membership.
