US EditionIraq's displaced Kurds hope to return home after Turkey's Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire
- Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party declared a ceasefire in their 40-year insurgency against the Turkish government, raising hopes among displaced Iraqi Kurds that they may be able to return home.
- Turkish forces have repeatedly launched offensives in northern Iraq, targeting PKK fighters and setting up bases in the area, displacing thousands of Iraqi Kurdish civilians and cutting them off from their land.
- Iraqi Kurdish farmers like Adil Tahir Qadir, who was displaced from his village of Barchi in 1988, hope the ceasefire will allow them to return to their lands without fear of Turkish bombing.
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Iraq’s Displaced Kurds Hope to Return Home after Türkiye's Kurdish Militants Declare a Ceasefire
Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in northern Iraq, are finally allowing themselves to hope they will soon be able to go home. Their hopes were raised after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, on Saturday declared a ceasefire in the 40-year insurgency against the Turkish government, answering a call to disarm from earlier in the week by the group's leader, …
Iraq’s displaced Kurds hope to return home after Turkiye’s Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire
GUHARZE: Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in northern Iraq, are finally allowing themselves to hope they will soon be able to go home. Their hopes were raised after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, on Saturday declared a ceasefire in the 40-year insurgency against the Turkish
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Iraq's displaced Kurds hope to return home after Turkey's Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire
The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency against the government in neighboring Turkey. Turkish airstrikes and ground incursions have
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The Seattle TimesIraq’s displaced Kurds hope to return home after Turkey’s Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire
GUHARZE, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in northern Iraq…
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ANF NewsGÖÇ-DER: Forcibly displaced Kurds should be able to return to their ancient lands
The Mesopotamia Migration Monitoring and Research Association (GÖÇ-DER) held a press conference on Abdullah Öcalan’s “Call for Peace and Democratic Society” at the association building in Amed (tr: Diyarbakır). The press statement, read in Kurdish and Turkish, said: “All the points mentioned in the call by Mr. Abdullah Öcalan are a historic call to end the conflicts that have been going on for decades and to build and shape the common future of …
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