Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who backed the peace process initiated by a close nationalist ally, warned Turkey would pursue anti-PKK fight unless the group kept their pledge to disband.

"In order to pave the way for the implementation of (Ocalan's) call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today," the PKK executive committee said, quoted by the pro-PKK ANF news agency.

It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of the group and asked it to lay down its arms.

"We agree with the content of the call as it is and we say that we will follow and implement it," said the committee, which is based in northern Iraq.

"None of our forces will take armed action unless attacked," it added.

The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an........

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