Kurdish leader Ocalan declares ceasefire
By Funja Guler in Diyarbakir and Daniel Dombey in Istanbul
Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the armed Kurdish group that has battled Turkey for 30 years, has called on his organisation to give up its weapons and embrace politics instead.
In what was seen as a historic address, given amid scenes of mass jubilation on Thursday, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers party, or PKK, proclaimed an immediate ceasefire in a conflict that has claimed about 35,000 lives.
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