Turkey's Kurds say PKK militants heeding jailed leader's peace call is the right move
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The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...
Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...
ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement ...
After decades of fighting, the Kurdish group’s imprisoned leader is now calling for its fighters to put down their arms. By Ben Hubbard Ben Hubbard covers Turkey and the surrounding region.
The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.
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