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Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in landmark step to end decades-long Turkey conflict
A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...
Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq begin laying down weapons as part of peace process with Turkey
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...
Kurdish PKK burns guns in cauldron in big step towards ending Turkey conflict
The ceremony took place under tight security at a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan - the disarmament process is expected to last all ...
Erdoğan hails new page in Turkey’s history as Kurdish fighters lay down arms
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 ...
What to know about the latest effort to end Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict
A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...
Kurdish Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey
The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that ...
Turkey detains hundreds of Erdogan opponents in pursuit of 'octopus' of corruption
Erdogan says the probe tackles what he calls a corrupt network that is like 'an octopus whose arms stretch to other parts of ...
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Turkey to convert historic Armenian cathedral into a mosque
The historic Armenian Cathedral of Ani, also known as Surp Asdvadzadzin (Holy Mother of God), will be converted into a mosque ...
Turkey’s Central Bank Signals Caution With Focus on Deposits
Turkish central bank Governor Fatih Karahan said policymakers are closely watching deposit preferences among local savers, ...
Turkey's clean power growth is bad news for gas market bulls
Turkey is one of the world's fastest-growing power markets, and exporters of natural gas and LNG have eyed the country as a ...