A Turkish Kurdish woman with a child sits next to a PKK flag with a picture of the imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a women’s day event in Silopi, in Kurdish dominated southeastern Turkey, March 2, 2015. Kurdish militants on Sunday described as “historic” a call by their jailed leader to hold a disarmament congress and said Turkey must now take concrete steps to keep the peace process on track. Abdullah Ocalan, who still exerts influence over the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from his prison cell, on Saturday called on followers to meet in the spring and agree to lay down their arms. Ocalan’s call has been lauded by both sides as a crucial step in Turkey’s efforts to negotiate an end to a 30-year insurgency that has killed 40,000 people, mostly Kurds. REUTERS/Kadir Baris (TURKEY – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)