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Jailed Kurdish leader issues call to lay down arms
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself.
His statement, read out in a letter by MPs from a pro-Kurdish party, was aimed at ending four decades of armed struggle in south-eastern Turkey in which tens of thousands of people have been killed.
Ocalan, 75, had earlier met the MPs for several hours on Imrali, an island in the Sea of Marmara south-west of Istanbul where he has been imprisoned in solitary confinement since 1999.
His announcement came months after ultra-nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli, who is an ally of Turkey's government, launched an initiative to bring an end to the conflict.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kggzqy0x7o
His statement, read out in a letter by MPs from a pro-Kurdish party, was aimed at ending four decades of armed struggle in south-eastern Turkey in which tens of thousands of people have been killed.
Ocalan, 75, had earlier met the MPs for several hours on Imrali, an island in the Sea of Marmara south-west of Istanbul where he has been imprisoned in solitary confinement since 1999.
His announcement came months after ultra-nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli, who is an ally of Turkey's government, launched an initiative to bring an end to the conflict.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kggzqy0x7o
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