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PKK Militants Want To Enter Turkish Politics: Top Commander

Bese Hozat, the PKK's top female leader, told AFP the Kurdish militants want to return home to engage in politics in Turkey (Credit: AFP)

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq.

Speaking to AFP after handing in her own weapon alongside 29 of her comrades, the Kurdistan Workers' Party's top female commander Bese Hozat said if Turkey were willing, the disarmament process could be completed very quickly.

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