Kurdish militant group responds to call from its jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, to lay down arms
A Kurdish militia has declared a ceasefire in its 40-year insurgency against Turkey, after its imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm and dissolve earlier this week.
“We are declaring a ceasefire to be effective from today on. None of our forces will take armed action unless attacked,” the executive committee of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) said in a statement.
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