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After decades of an insurgency against the Turkish government, members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, known as the PKK, ceremonially laid down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq. The group’s jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, recently decided to disarm and seek a political solution to the PKK’s grievances. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler explains.