"All the steps the leader Apo has initiated have been implemented... there will be no further actions taken," commander Amed Malazgirt told AFP on Saturday in a bunker in the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq.

"From now on, we will be waiting for the Turkish state and they have to be the one taking steps," he said.

The group has two demands, he added.

"First, the freedom of leader Apo... without this, the process will not succeed. The second is the constitutional and official recognition of the Kurdish people in Turkey."

Female senior commander Serda Mazlum Gabar told AFP that "as long as the leadership is inside, the Kurdish people cannot be free. Nor can we, as guerrillas, feel free."

"Our path to freedom passes through the freedom of our leadership," she added.

Ocalan, 76, has led the peace process from his cell on Imrali island, where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999.

Turkish lawmakers from a committee tasked with fleshing out the peace process with the Kurds visited Ocalan earlier this week.