In a letter passed to Kurdish lawmakers permitted to visit him, Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, called on the group to lay down its arms — potentially ending a 40-year insurgency. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports.
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