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SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants will hand over their weapons in a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant first step toward ending a decades-long insurgency with Turkey.
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decadeslong insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the