Kurdish region, President of Turkey
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The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met on Friday with a delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) that was in the Kurdistan Region to attend a ceremonial disarmament of a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters as part of peace
The ceremony marks a fresh turning point in a peace process aimed at ending the militant group’s four-decade-long armed campaign against Turkey.
ANKARA, Turkey — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place as a first concrete step in a peace process with the Turkish state.