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PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after 40yrs

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.

Jailed PKK leader says ‘ready’ to support Turkey peace drive

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is ‘ready to make a call’ to back a new initiative by the Turkish government to end decades of conflict, Turkey’s pro-Kurd party said Sunday.

Kurds drifting away from democracy