Footage showing a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during the recent disarmament ceremony of the first batch of PKK fighters in Sulaimani province helped Kurdish parents find their daughter a decade after her disappearance.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday underscored the critical role of parliament and a soon-to-be-formed legislative commission in advancing the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a move he framed as essential to ending a nearly half-century conflict that he said has cost Turkey an estimated $2 trillion.
Senior lawmakers from Turkey’s main political parties met with the parliament speaker on Friday to discuss forming a commission to advance the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), though the nationalist IYI Party ruled out participating.
Footage showing a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during the recent disarmament ceremony of the first batch of PKK fighters in Sulaimani province helped Kurdish parents find their daughter a decade after her disappearance.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday underscored the critical role of parliament and a soon-to-be-formed legislative commission in advancing the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a move he framed as essential to ending a nearly half-century conflict that he said has cost Turkey an estimated $2 trillion.
The spokesperson for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday called for the full dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its affiliated groups, following a symbolic disarmament ceremony held in the Kurdistan Region.
The leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) welcomed the disarmament of a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters in Sulaimani province on Friday, calling it the beginning of the end of a “dark era.”
