Kurdish PKK to disband, potentially ending decades of conflict in Turkiye | News

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Move follows February call by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan for group to lay down its arms.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has announced that it plans to disband and disarm in a move promising an end to decades of conflict with Turkiye.

The move was announced on Monday by the Firat News Agency, a media outlet close to the group. Part of a new peace initiative with Ankara designed to put an end to four decades of violence, the plan to disband comes…