Anti-nuclear weapons group ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Ilker Girit

ISTANBUL (AA) - The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.

In a statement, the committee said the Geneva-based anti-nuclear weapon organization had been awarded for drawing “attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".

Norwegian Nobel Committee also said the ICAN "has been the leading civil society actor in the endeavor to achieve a prohibition of nuclear weapons under international law".

Last year, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end".