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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 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 ...
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 ...
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PKK disarmament expected to take months to complete
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq is expected to give up its weapons within a few months following its ...
PKK to destroy weapons
Due to sensitivities over the abandonment of the insurgency, the fighters will destroy rather than surrender their weapons.
Five key dates in the Turkey-PKK conflict
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will start laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, ...
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PKK's Abdullah Ocalan: 'No Israeli dominance through Kurds'
Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...
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.The PKK had said it would lay down its arms ...