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Kurdish Militant Group PKK Says Disbanding, Ending Armed Struggle

Abdullah Ocalan founded the PKK in the late 1970s and it began its armed insurgency in 1984 (Credit: AFP)

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Monday announced its dissolution, saying it was ending its armed struggle against the Turkish state and drawing a line under its bloody four-decade insurgency.

Founded in the late 1970s by Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK carried out attacks aimed at defending Kurdish autonomy in Turkey that cost more than 40,000 lives.

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