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PKK militants in Iraq begin laying down arms as part of peace process with Turkey

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, the first step toward a promised disarmament as part of a peace process.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades of hostilities.

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