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| The Grand Turk |
| PKK feud with Turkey is 'coming to an end' |
| 2014-08-17 |
[ARABNEWS] The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's 30-year conflict with Turkey is coming to an end, the group's tossed in the slammerYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! leader said on Saturday, hailing the start of a new democratic process in the country. The PKK, which for three decades fought the Turkish authorities in a bloody insurgency seeking greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority, launched its armed struggle with coordinated attacks on police and security forces on Aug. 15, 1984. But the group's tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! leader Abdullah Ocalan said in a statement from his prison island of Imrali on the Sea of Marmara that Turkey was now on the verge of "historic developments" after its Aug. 10 presidential elections. "On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our struggle, I want to state that we are on the verge of historic developments," Ocalan said in a statement quoted by the Firat news agency which is close to the PKK. "This 30-year-long war is — through a major democratic negotiation — at the stage of coming to an end." |
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