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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Kurds call for PKK ceasefire

"Kurds call for PKK ceasefire

Nick Birch in Istanbul
Friday August 19, 2005
The Guardian

Turkey's most influential Kurdish activists have called on Kurdish separatist rebels to end a campaign of violence that has killed hundreds in the past year.

The Democratic Society Movement, founded last year by Leyla Zana, a winner of the EU Sakharov peace prize, said the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) should declare an 'immediate and unconditional ceasefire'."

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