Senior PKK figure Bese Hozat read a statement in Turkish outside the mouth of a cave near Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq’s north on Friday.
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‘We voluntarily destroy our weapons, before your presence, as a step of goodwill and determination’, she said. The ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the PKK from armed insurgency to democratic politics in the four-decade conflict
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