PKK holds congress in response to Ocalan’s call to end war with Turkey

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party announced it had held a long-awaited congress on Friday during which it likely decided to disband itself and end its four decade long armed campaign against the Turkish state. 

The militant group said the congress had been held in Iraqi Kurdistan between May 5-7 and that it would soon be sharing the details of its deliberations with the public. On Feb. 27, the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called on the group to dissolve itself and to call…