![TURKEY-KURDS/ The eight Turkish prisoners are seen as they are released in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, March 13, 2013. Turkish Kurd militants freed a group of Turkish soldiers and officials they had held in the mountains of northern Iraq for more than a year on Wednesday, the first concrete step in efforts to end their 28-year-old insurgency. The six soldiers, a police officer and a local official looked in good health and wore clean clothes as they were handed to a delegation of Turkish rights activists and pro-Ku](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/06/RTR3EXN9.jpg/RTR3EXN9.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=dJYxswd3)
![TURKEY-KURDS/ The eight Turkish prisoners are seen as they are released in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, March 13, 2013. Turkish Kurd militants freed a group of Turkish soldiers and officials they had held in the mountains of northern Iraq for more than a year on Wednesday, the first concrete step in efforts to end their 28-year-old insurgency. The six soldiers, a police officer and a local official looked in good health and wore clean clothes as they were handed to a delegation of Turkish rights activists and pro-Ku](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/06/RTR3EXN9.jpg/RTR3EXN9.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=dJYxswd3)
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![TURKEY-KURDS/ The eight Turkish prisoners are seen as they are released in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, March 13, 2013. Turkish Kurd militants freed a group of Turkish soldiers and officials they had held in the mountains of northern Iraq for more than a year on Wednesday, the first concrete step in efforts to end their 28-year-old insurgency. The six soldiers, a police officer and a local official looked in good health and wore clean clothes as they were handed to a delegation of Turkish rights activists and pro-Ku](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/06/RTR3EXN9.jpg/RTR3EXN9.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=dJYxswd3)
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