Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey

A Kurdish militant group has officially agreed to disband and halt a 40-year insurgency. Called the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, the decision came in early May following the organization’s 12th Party Congress, in which it was determined that the quest for Kurdish sovereignty could be accomplished politically, and that armed struggle was no […] The post Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey appeared first on Good News Network.

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