Ocalan urges Ankara to integrate Kurdish rights into law

“Until today, Kurdish rights have been ignored and kept outside the law, but today a democratic integration law needs to be built,” said Ocalan.

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DEM Party urges Turkish parliamentary peace commission to consult Ocalan

Tuncer Bakirhan, co-chair of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), told the Turkish parliament that speaking with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan should not be "a taboo."

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MHP leader urges Turkey to negotiate with Ocalan on YPG disarmament

Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli urged the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northeast Syria (Rojava) to lay down arms in accordance with "the February 26 Imrali Call," despite the YPG's longstanding denial of affiliation with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

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Erdogan dubs PKK ‘harmful weeds’, vows to root them out 

“Our country will become even stronger" once the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) "reaches its destination," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

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Drone targets suspected PJAK members in Sulaimani province

A war monitor claimed that the drone was launched by Turkey and targeted PJAK members

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PKK disarmament sparks hope for Sinjar return, but deep challenges persist

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has officially begun disarmament following a call from its leader Abdullah Ocalan, raising hopes for the return of displaced Yazidis to Sinjar. However, Iraqi lawmakers and security experts caution that the move, while symbolic, is not enough to solve the crisis.

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Iraq's Sudani says PKK disarmament ‘promoting stability’ in phone call with Erdogan

Prime Minister Sudani congratulated Erdogan "on the peace agreement" between the Turkish government and the PKK, stressing that the agreement will have a positive impact on the region, including "promoting stability.”

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'Today is a new day' says Erdogan after PKK's historic disarmament

"Today is a new day; a new page has been opened in history. Today, the doors of a great and powerful Turkey, of the Century of Turkey, have opened,” Turkish President Erdogan said.

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Kurdish artist to sculpt ‘monument of peace’ from destroyed PKK weapons

Zirak Mira, a prominent Kurdish sculptor, wants to immortalize the destroyed PKK firearms in an art piece as a testament to the Kurdish nation’s peaceful spirit

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