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Kurdistan Workers’ party fighters burn weapons in disarming ceremony – video

ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian

Senior PKK figure Bese Hozat read a statement in Turkish outside the mouth of a cave near Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq’s north on Friday. ‘We voluntarily destroy our weapons, before your presence, as a step of goodwill and determination…

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Kurdish PKK Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey

ByBen Hubbard and Safak Timur

The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.

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Kurdish PKK Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey

ByBen Hubbard and Safak Timur

The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.

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Jailed Kurdish Leader Declares the End to PKK’s Armed Struggle In Turkey

ByBen Hubbard and Safak Timur

In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey would be replaced by politics.

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Jailed Kurdish Leader Declares the End to PKK’s Armed Struggle In Turkey

ByBen Hubbard and Safak Timur

In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey would be replaced by politics.