Iraqi Kurds protest power cuts, one killed
A man was killed in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region late Sunday during protests against power cuts, residents and a medical source said.
A man was killed in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region late Sunday during protests against power cuts, residents and a medical source said.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party on Monday announced its dissolution and the end of its armed struggle, drawing a line under its deadly four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state.
Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is ‘ready to make a call’ to back a new initiative by the Turkish government to end decades of conflict, Turkey’s pro-Kurd party said Sunday.