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Turkey Eyes Legal Steps After Kurdish Militant Group PKK Disbands

PKK head Murat Karayılan announcing the party's dissolution at an undisclosed location in northern Iraq (Credit: AFP)

After the decision by the Kurdish militant group PKK to disband, Turkey was eyeing Wednesday a raft of legal and technical measures to ensure its full implementation and finally end a four-decade insurgency.

Monday's announcement sought to draw a line under a bloody chapter that began in 1984 when the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took up arms, triggering a conflict that cost more than 40,000 lives.

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