Kurdistan Workers' Party ceremonially lays down its arms
by editors@theworld.org (Aaron Schachter) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6YKCX)
After decades of an insurgency against the Turkish government, members of the Kurdistan Worker's Party, known as the PKK, ceremonially laid down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq. The group's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, recently decided to disarm and seek a political solution to the PKK's grievances. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler explains.