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Some thousands of supporters demonstrate waving various PKK flags and posters of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, March 21, 2013, as Ocalan called Thursday for an immediate cease-fire and for thousands of his fighters to withdraw from Turkish territory. (AP Photo)


PKK Leader Calls for Truce with Turkey

PKK Leader Calls for Truce with Turkey

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkish-Kurdish relations entered a new phase today after Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Öcalan, issued a historic ceasefire call. In a letter written from his prison cell on the island of Imrali, Öcalan announced that “we have...