The reconciliation process has taken a new shape with the PKK's imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan's call on Saturday for the group to lay down their arms, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said.

Davutoğlu made the comments at AK Party's youth congress on Saturday in Ankara. He said: "The reconciliation process, which began with President Erdogan's speech in Diyarbakir in 2005, has now taken a new shape."

Öcalan's invitation to find a common ground on PKK's disarmament, will pave the way for a democratic policy in Turkey, according to Davutoğlu.

Davutoğlu further said said the discourse of violence and armament will end in Turkey.

Öcalan's call was shared with the public by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) during a press conference on Saturday.The conference took place after the Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan held talks at the Prime Minister's Office in Istanbul with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) committee, including HDP Vice Chair İdris Baluken and HDP deputies Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, over the reconciliation process between Ankara and Kurds.Both sides emphasized the importance of ceasefire and said that Turkey is closer to peace than ever.HDP deputy Önder said, the dialogues between the two parties over the reconciliation process has come to a "serious" stage, and shared the Abdullah Öcalan's message, in which he invited the PKK to hold a congress in spring to make its historical decision to find common ground on the issue of laying down arms.