Jailed Leader of the Kurds Offers a Truce With Turkey
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Flags bore the image of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan at a rally in Diyarbakir on Thursday.
By SEBNEM ARSU
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for a cease-fire and ordered all his fighters off Turkish soil, in a landmark moment for a newly energized effort to end three decades of armed conflict with the Turkish government.
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