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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkish pro-Kurdish DEM Party's Ahmet Turk reads a letter of jailed Kurdish PKK militant group’s leader Abdullah Ocalan (unseen) during a press conference shares a statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm during the press conference held by DEM Party officials on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year co

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Sirri Sureyya Onder speaks during a press conference as they share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Sirri Sureyya Onder speaks during a press conference as they share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Pervin Buldan share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm during the press conference hold by DEM Party officials on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Pervin Buldan share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm during the press conference hold by DEM Party officials on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkish pro-Kurdish DEM Party's Ahmet Turk reads a letter of jailed Kurdish PKK militant group’s leader Abdullah Ocalan (unseen) during a press conference shares a statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm during the press conference held by DEM Party officials on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year co

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Sirri Sureyya Onder speaks during a press conference as they share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkish pro-Kurdish DEM Party's Ahmet Turk reads a letter of jailed Kurdish PKK militant group’s leader Abdullah Ocalan (unseen) during a press conference shares a statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm during the press conference held by DEM Party officials on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year co

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Sirri Sureyya Onder speaks during a press conference as they share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan calls for Kurdish militant group to lay down arms

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party PM Sirri Sureyya Onder gestures during a press conference as they share the statement from jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call on the PKK to disarm on February 27, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. DEM Party officials met with jailed PKK militant group leader Ocalan for the third time in his island prison early today. The visit is seen as part of a government bid to have Ocalan call on the PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency which it launched against the Turkish state in 1984 and in which more than 40,000 people have been killed. PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Ocalan has been held in near-total isolation on Imrali Island since 1999, with only rare communication with the outside world. Ocalan calls on PKK to dissolve, pro-Kurdish party says, potentially ending 40-year conflict. Photo by Berkman Ulutin/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NATO chief pledges continued support for Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani hold a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 6, 2014. Stoltenberg said NATO will continue to support Afghanistan even after the Western alliance completes its mission against the insurgency by the end of this year.

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Turkey-Iraq security check point

HABUR, Turkey - Trucks wait in a queue at the Habur border gate in eastern Turkey on the border with Iraq on June 28, 2014. The insurgency in northern Iraq by the Sunni militant "Islamic State" group has sharply reduced exports from Turkey to the conflict-torn Arab country ruled by the Shiite majority.

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Fugitive leader urges Iraqi PM to immediately step down

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Former Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on June 26, 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey. He urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down immediately, blaming the government for sectarian policies that have fueled the Sunni insurgency in the country.

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Philippine Muslim rebels sign peace pact with gov't

MANILA, Philippines - The Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group, signs a comprehensive peace agreement with the central government at the Presidential Palace in Manila on March 27, 2014, ending 17 years of negotiations and more than four decades of insurgency mainly in the southern island of Mindanao. MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim (far L, back), Philippine President Benigno Aquino (2nd from R, back), and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (3rd from R, back), who served as facilitator, and others witnessed the signing.

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Myanmar ethnic Karen rebel leader Bo Mya dies

BANGKOK, Thailand - Gen. Bo Mya (file photo), former leader of Myanmar's ethnic Karen insurgency, died Dec. 24 in a privately run hospital in the Thai border town of Mae Sot from complications of several ailments, including diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems, Karen and hospital sources said.

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Violence-torn region in southern Philippines hungers for peace, development

STORY: Violence-torn region in southern Philippines hungers for peace, development DATELINE: Nov. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:22 LOCATION: COTABATO CITY, the Philippines CATEGORY: POLITICS/ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Cotabato City 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AHOD EBRAHIM, BARMM Chief Minister 3. various of Cotabato City 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): AHOD EBRAHIM, BARMM Chief Minister 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FERDINAND ROMUALDEZ MARCOS, Philippine President 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): AHOD EBRAHIM, BARMM Chief Minister STORYLINE: Scarred by almost five decades of armed conflict, a violence-torn region in the southern Philippines is on its way to a lasting peace, attracting more investors to rebuild the languishing economy and lift its people out of poverty. Cotabato City is the biggest city of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), southern Philippines. In 2014, the Philippine government and Bangsamoro's combatants signed a peace agreement, ending the decades-long insurgency. In 2018

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Nigeria pledges support for South Sudan in fight against insurgency

STORY: Nigeria pledges support for South Sudan in fight against insurgency DATELINE: May 15, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:12 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari welcoming the South Sudan envoy 2. various of the meeting STORYLINE: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria will lend a helping hand to South Sudan in fighting insurgency, and restoring cohesion to the country. The President said so on Friday at the State House, Abuja, when meeting Albino Mathom Ayuel, Special Envoy of President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan. He told the Special Envoy of the situation this administration met on ground in the North East in 2015, and how great strides have been taken in comparison with present days. "We will study your situation, and see how we can help," President Buhari said. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Abuja. (XHTV)

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Boko Haram not tied to religion, Buhari tells ICC

STORY: Boko Haram not tied to religion, Buhari tells ICC DATELINE: April 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of President Muhammadu Buhari meeting with Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court Karin Khan 2. various of other officials STORYLINE: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says the Boko Haram insurgency has neither religious nor ethnic underpinning, and that with adequate education, the majority of Nigerians now know the truth. The president made the remarks Wednesday while receiving Karin Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at the State House in the capital of Abuja. He said that with concerted public enlightenment, it had become clear to Nigerians that Boko Haram was a perversion of religion rather than an Islamic ideology. For his part, the ICC prosecutor said that extremism was like cancer "which spreads and can also recede." According to him, what Boko Haram does in collaboration with the Islamic State o

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Human Rights Watch member discusses Islamic State insurgency

Peter Bouckaert, emergency director at Human Rights Watch, an international nongovernmental organization, talks about how to cope with the Islamic State militant group during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Taliban insurgency avoids touching on top leader Omar's alleged death

Supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is shown in this photo spread on the Internet in 2002. While the Afghan presidential office confirmed on July 29, 2015, that Omar died in Pakistan in 2013, the Taliban insurgency did not mention Omar in its statement on July 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Myanmar ethnic Karen rebel leader Bo Mya dies

BANGKOK, Thailand - Gen. Bo Mya (file photo), former leader of Myanmar's ethnic Karen insurgency, died Dec. 24 in a privately run hospital in the Thai border town of Mae Sot from complications of several ailments, including diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems, Karen and hospital sources said. (Kyodo)

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NATO chief pledges continued support for Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani hold a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 6, 2014. Stoltenberg said NATO will continue to support Afghanistan even after the Western alliance completes its mission against the insurgency by the end of this year. (Kyodo)

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Turkey-Iraq security check point

HABUR, Turkey - Trucks wait in a queue at the Habur border gate in eastern Turkey on the border with Iraq on June 28, 2014. The insurgency in northern Iraq by the Sunni militant "Islamic State" group has sharply reduced exports from Turkey to the conflict-torn Arab country ruled by the Shiite majority. (Kyodo)