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Iraqi Kurds react to militant group PKK disbanding / 46DQ9WE
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Residents in Arbil, the main city in Iraqi Kurdistan, say they're happy but are wary of a peace process with Turkey after the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced its dissolution and the end of its armed struggle. "If the peace process is serious, we welcome it, but it must be based on a serious approach to the issue, not a plot against the Kurds," says Khalid Mohamad, an Iraqi Kurd in Arbil. Founded in the late 1970s by Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK took up arms in 1984, beginning a deadly four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES