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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Suzan Fraser

Imprisoned PKK leader calls for new laws that would advance peace with the Turkish government

Turkey Kurds - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The imprisoned leader of a militant Kurdish group in Turkey on Friday urged for new legislation that would advance a peace initiative with the Turkish government in the wake of their decades‑long conflict.

The appeal by Abullah Ocalan came a year after his historic call for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to lay down its arms and dissolve itself.

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