Turkey, where he renewed his proposal for peace negotiations. In 1999 the PKK announced that they would leave their bases in Turkey, and would follow Öcalans bid for an end of armed conflict. In 2004 the cease fire ended and armed conflict resumed. Peace initiatives by the civil and political society The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly organized a conference in January 1995 in Istanbul, where the Kurdish-Turkish conflict was discussed extensively. The outcome of the conference encouraged the HCA to organize a statewide campaign for peace in numerous cities in order to facilitate a solution to the conflict. In February 1996 a conference called The Kurdish Problem and the Democratic Solution Symposium was organized by the Kurdish Institute in Istanbul. A second conference called Gathering for Peace appealed to the Turkish Government to act cooperatively to the ceasefire announced by the PKK in December 1995. The Turkish Human Rights Organization called for participation in a campaign called the Musa Anter Peace Train, a train which should have departed the 26 August in Brussels and after stopping in several cities throughout the country should have entered Diyarbakır on the 1 September. But the train was not permitted the transit through Germany, Yugoslavia and Romania. So the participants booked flights to Istanbul from where they organized a convoy of buses towards Diyarbakır. The convoy was not allowed to enter Diyarbakır by the Turkish authorities and on their way back to Istanbul several participants were detained. In December 1997, the photographer Julia Guest organized an exhibition on the journey. An other initiative was initiated in October 1996 by the left wing Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP). A campaign called 1 Million signatures for peace () was called for and its signatures were eventually delivered to the Turkish parliament in May 1997. See also 2013–2015 PKK–Turkish peace process References History of Turkey History of Kurdistan Kurdish–Turkish peace process