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Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in Iraq to launch disarmament
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a ...
Jailed Kurdish militant leader urges PKK fighters to disarm before a symbolic peace ceremony
The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. Abdullah Ocalan emphasized ...
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PKK militants symbolically lay down arms in historic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan
The ceremony marks a fresh turning point in a peace process aimed at ending the militant group’s four-decade-long armed ...
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PKK no longer seeks independent Kurdistan, Ocalan says in rare video
The PKK's jailed leader says in video address that his movement no longer seeks a nation state ahead of ceremony to lay down ...
Jailed PKK leader Ocalan says armed struggle over, urges democratic transition
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said the group's armed struggle against ...
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How will the PKK’s disarmament play out in the region?
The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...
Turkish President Hails the Start of Disarmament by Militant Kurdish Separatists
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed the disarmament of militant Kurdish separatists as the end of a “painful ...