Kurds gathered in Diyarbakir on Thursday. Umit Bektas/Reuters
A Kurdish Spring on Many Fronts -- Harvey Morris, IHT
LONDON — Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdish Workers Party, the P.K.K., called for a ceasefire Thursday in the three-decades-long war between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state, giving a whole new impetus to New Year celebrations by Kurds.
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds gathered in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to observe a holiday that they were long forbidden to mark publicly in Turkey.
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