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Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in Iraq to start disarmament

By Ako Rasheed SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) -Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.

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Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in landmark step to end decades-long Turkey conflict

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Kurdish PKK burns guns in cauldron in big step towards ending Turkey conflict

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Kurdish PKK burns guns in big step towards ending Turkey conflict

After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the outlawed Kurdish PKK will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark a symbolic first step in laying down its arms.

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Key dates in PKK Kurdish militant group's decades-long armed struggle against Turkey

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PKK Militants Want To Enter Turkish Politics: Top Commander

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Kurdish Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey

The fighters who participated in the ceremony said in a statement released by a P.K.K.-affiliated news outlet that they were destroying their weapons “of their own free will” to show their willingnes...

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Kurdish PKK concludes handover, burning of weapons in northern Iraq

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PKK fighters in Iraq burn weapons in disarming ceremony

PKK disarmament opens new page for Turkey, Erdogan says

ISTANBUL - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with a handover of the first batch of weapons by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces,

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Erdogan says parliamentary commission ‘first step’ in PKK peace talks

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that the formation of a parliamentary commission will be a “first step” in peace talks between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),

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PKK militants want to enter Turkish politics: top commander

SULAIMANIYAH (Iraq) (AFP) – Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq.

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PKK Disarmament Ceremony An 'Irreversible Turning Point': Senior Turkish Official

Turkey on Friday hailed a ceremony where PKK militants destroyed a first batch of weapons as a "milestone" and an "irreversible turning point" on the road to peace.

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Turkey celebrates peace with the PKK but tightens its grip on the CHP with hundreds of arrests

A ceremony is scheduled today in Iraqi Kurdistan to mark the movement's farewell to arms. Its leader Öcalan recently praised “politics and social peace,” while delinking his perso

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