Kurdish Rebels Declare Ceasefire

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 11:58AM EDT / Published Mar. 23, 2013 5:27PM EDT

Kurdish rebels declared an official ceasefire with Turkey Saturday, after their jailed leader this week ordered an end to a several-decade long struggle for autonomy. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) says it will keep a "clear and formal" ceasefire with Turkey in a video taped at a rebel holdout in Iraq. "The decision by our leader is all of ours. We accept this decision, we agree with it," a rebel spokesman said in the video."We see it as historic, correct and very important and as the start of a new period." The United States and UN consider the PKK a terrorist organization.

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Kurdish Rebels Declare Ceasefire