(Reuters) -The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said on Sunday it was withdrawing from Turkey as part of a disarmament process it is coordinating with the government, and pressed Ankara for concrete measures to move the process along.

The PKK, which has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984, decided in May to disarm and disband after a call to end its armed struggle from its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan. The fighting has killed more than 40,000 people.

In July, the group, designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and European Union, burned some weapons in a symbolic act of good faith.

In a statement from northern Iraq on Sunday, the PKK said it had decided to withdraw all of its militants to lay the foundations of what it c

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