Imprisoned Kurdish leader Ocalan calls for PKK to lay down its arms

IMPRISONED Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan today called on his resistance group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
In a message from his prison on an island off Istanbul on Thursday, Mr Ocalan said that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), should hold a congress and decide to disband.
“Convene your congress and make a decision. All groups must lay their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself,” Mr Ocalan said, according to a message that was relayed by pro-Kurdish party politicians who visited the imprisoned leader earlier in the day.
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