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Pro-Kurdish party in Turkey announces planned PKK disarmament in Iraq
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on ...
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President Barzani, Iraq security advisor discuss PKK disarmament, Iran border pact
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Wednesday met with Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji in Erbil to discuss key security developments, including the anticipated disarmament ...
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PKK leader Öcalan releases first video message in 26 years ahead of disarmament ceremony
"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.
Kurdish fighters in Iraq to hand over weapons in first step toward disarmament
IRBIL, Iraq -- A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in ...
'They brainwashed my son': the families of PKK fighters waiting for 40-year conflict to end
When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long ...
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Abdullah Öcalan Declares End to PKK's Armed Struggle
Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has called for the group’s formal dissolution, urging a shift from armed struggle to democratic politics and peaceful coexistence. In a June 19 video, he declared the ...
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Kurdish PKK fighters to destroy weapons in 'goodwill' act: commanders
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party will soon destroy their weapons as a "goodwill gesture" to signal their commitment ...