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Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey

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Kurdish militant group has agreed to disband and halt a 40-year insurgency.

Decision came in early May following the organization’s 12th Party Congress , in which it was determined that the quest for Kurdish sovereignty could be accomplished politically, and that armed struggle was no longer necessary.

The PKK and Turkey has been one of the world's longest-running insurgencies, and resulted in tens of thousands of casualties.