Kurds See Ball In Ankara's Court After PKK Says Disbanding

The decision by the Kurdish mililtant group PKK to disarm and disband was made at a leadership congress in northern Iraq last week (Credit: AFP)

All eyes were on the Turkish government Tuesday with the Kurds and their supporters looking for confidence-building steps a day after the PKK militant group announced its dissolution, ending its four-decade insurgency.

The move sought to draw a line under a bloody chapter which began in 1984 when the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took up arms to carve out a homeland for Kurds, triggering a conflict that cost more than 40,000 lives.