PKK leader calls on group to drop weapons and disband, in major shift

Le Monde

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Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has called on the terror group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a historic statement read by the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party).
Hürriyet Daily News
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A delegation of Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party visited Ocalan on Thursday in his island prison and later delivered his statement in nearby Istanbul.
Aljazeera
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The PKK is a militant group founded by Ocalan in southeast Turkey in 1978 with an ideology based on Marxist-Leninist ideas.
Reuters
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The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
Deccan Herald

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