Jailed Kurdish leader Demirtas backs Turkiye PKK bill

ISTANBUL: Prominent Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed in Turkiye since 2016, on Sunday backed a bill that would grant limited and conditional amnesty to PKK Kurdish militants ahead of a parliamentary vote on Monday. “We hope that you will take another crucial step forward in this historic peace effort,” the former co-chair of Turkiye’s main pro-Kurdish party said in a statement. He said the law would “radically transform the fate of our country and our region” after more than four decades of armed conflict that has claimed at least 50,000 lives.

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