Turkey’s Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency
- Posted on February 27, 2025
- By CNN
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Turkey’s Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey that is estimated to have killed at least 40,000 people.