Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the country had “turned . . . a new page in history” as Kurdish militants began to hand over their weapons in the latest step to end a four-decade insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
A group of 30 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) gathered near their base in northern Iraq on Friday and burned their rifles in a symbolic first step towards disarmament.
The move comes after their jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is serving a life sentence in a Turkish prison, ordered them to disband earlier this year.
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