World Feb 27 Imprisoned Kurdish leader urges his PKK militant group to disarm to make peace with Turkey Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
World Sep 12 American cave researcher safe after rescue from 3,000 feet deep in a Turkish cave Rescuers had to widen some of the cave’s narrow passages, install ropes to pull him up vertical shafts on a stretcher and set up temporary camps along the way before the operation could begin.