PKK armed wing to drop guns against Turkey

The People's Army, the armed wing of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday announced its intention to drop its weapons and start withdrawing its forces from Turkey as of September 1. In a statement broadcast in Istanbul on Friday, the People's Army said, "We consider the call made by the leader of the PKK to our armed forces to halt the war as from the first of September as an imperative order."