"On behalf of the PKK, I want to apologize to the German people. This will not happen again," the PKK's operative leader Cemil Bayik said in an interview with public channels WDR and NDR, which said they met the leader in a secret place in Iraq, where PKK militias are fighting the "Islamic State" (IS).
The PKK held violent rallies in the country in the 1990s where members set themselves on fire and blocked highways to attract attention to their cause.
Bayik said his organization was not interested in fighting for independence against Turkey anymore and would rather work towards a political solution. "We do not want to fight Turkey anymore. We're saying, enough of fighting," Bayik emphasized, adding that fighting from both sides had not served anybody's cause.
Germany filed 4500 criminal cases on PKK, which is included to the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.
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