Reuters was nearly eight minutes ahead of the competition in reporting that the jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his PKK to lay down arms and end its 40-year conflict with Turkey.
If the PKK leadership heeds its founder’s call to lay down its arms, which is not guaranteed, President Tayyip Erdogan would gain a historic opportunity to pacify and develop southeastern Turkey, where violence has killed thousands of people and devastated the regional economy.
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