Kurdish PKK militants declare ceasefire with Turkey after 40 years of armed struggle
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament call, in a major step toward ending a 40-year insurgency against the Turkish state.
The conflict, which began in 1984, has led to tens of thousands of deaths. The ceasefire is the first sign of an end to the ...
Making peace with the PKK could also lead to a major advance in Erdogan’s mission to stabilise Syria under a friendly new government, as the biggest threat to those new rulers is the US-backed Syrian ...
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