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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 ...
What to know about the latest effort to end Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict
A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...
Kurdish militants begin disarming for peace process
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...
Ocalan: founder of the Kurdish militant PKK who authored its end
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...
Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq begin laying down weapons as part of peace process with Turkey
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...
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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 ...
PKK moves towards peace: Ocalan’s historic appeal for a democratic future
It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its ...
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Turkey tells Council of Europe it will not extend ‘right to hope’ to Öcalan
Ankara stated that granting the right to conditional release for those sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment is not under ...