In major shift, Ocalan calls for PKK to drop weapons, disband
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Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan holds his declaration in a photograph with members of a delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party who visited him on Imrali prison island where he has been held in solitary since 1999
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