ANKARA (Reuters) - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, facing a possible death penalty on treason charges, has pleaded for a pardon in return for the surrender of his guerrillas, a Turkish newspaper said on Tuesday. The mass-circulation Sabah daily said Ocalan told prosecutors visiting the Turkish prison island where he is being held that he regretted his role in leading the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in their 14- year-old fight for Kurdish self-rule. "This country is also my country. This state is also my state. Give me a chance and I will give good service to my country. If there is a pardon, I will get the PKK to surrender," the newspaper quoted Ocalan as saying. One of the prosecutors said he had visited Ocalan on the island of Imrali at the weekend but could not confirm the newspaper report. "It would not be correct for me to comment publicly on the case," state security court chief prosecutor Cevdet Volkan told Reuters. PKK officials say they will discount any statements by Ocalan because they will be made under duress. Turkey has been hit by a surge in violence since Ocalan was seized by Turkish special forces in Kenya in February. A 13-year-old girl was killed and a dozen people injured on Monday when a suspected Kurdish rebel suicide bomber blew himself up in an attack on the local governor in the eastern province of Bingol. More than 29,000 people have been killed in the conflict between the Turkish security forces and the PKK.