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The ageing leader of a Kurdish militant group imprisoned on a remote Turkish island has called on the group to disarm and dissolve itself, signalling the start of a fragile peace with Turkey after four decades of guerrilla warfare, attacks and reprisals.

Abdullah Öcalan, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK), a group long regarded as a terrorist organisation in Turkey as well as in Britain and the US, issued the message in a letter read out by allies in Istanbul.

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That is not much of a statement is it ,he is in prison, so naturally, he would say that. However, the Kurdish people's struggle for statehood will persist. The Kurds are a nation deserving of sovereignty they deserve nationhood it is remarkable that they remain the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. This, of course, is a direct consequence of Britain’s divide and rule tactics in the Middle East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Dr Zackovich