Ocalan warned against derailing Turkey-PKK peace process, says pro-Kurdish party

“Ocalan reminded of the sabotage attempts developed against past solution initiatives regarding the recently intensified anti-process rhetoric and statements,” the DEM Party said in a statement. “He drew attention to the ‘coup mechanics’ as a situation and habit encountered in all these processes.” 

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Iraq-Turkey water deal to take effect in coming days: Official

Torhan al-Mufti, the Iraqi prime minister's advisor for regional water affairs, said in a statement that implementation will begin once procedural steps are finalized in the coming days and that Turkey has already increased Iraq’s share of water from both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

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‘Chauvinistic’: President Barzani’s office condemns Bahceli’s remarks

“Unfortunately, he spoke again with a chauvinistic mindset, contradicting all norms and serving nobody’s interests,” Barzani’s office said in a statement, stressing that Barzani’s security detail “was based on a protocol agreement between the relevant institutions in the Kurdistan Region and Turkey.”

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‘No one is promising amnesty’: Bahceli fires back at PKK senior member

KCK co-chair Bese Hozat had stated that the PKK cadres do not require amnesty because “no crime has been committed.”

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DEM Party condemns ‘unlawful’ blockade of Kurdish co-mayors in Cizre

The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) alleged that two of its co-mayors were "unlawfully prevented" from attending a symposium discussing a Kurdish poet in the Cizre district of the majority-Kurdish Sirnak province.

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Turkish FM urges end to Iran sanctions, calls for dialogue on nuclear issues

The Turkish top diplomat stressed that Ankara “will continue to stand with Iran within the framework of international law.”

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President Barzani praises Turkey-PKK peace efforts

Speaking at an event in Turkey discussing the works of a Kurdish poet and philosopher, President Masoud Barzani hailed the steps take by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in seeking to bring the almost 40-year-old conflict to a close.

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PKK official slams Turkey’s peace efforts as ‘insufficient,’ urges concrete steps 

Bese Hozat, co-chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), said that Turkey must take concrete steps “in legal and judicial terms” to advance the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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Kurdistan Region youth delegation requests meeting with Ocalan

Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is seeking to organize a trip for a youth delegation from the Kurdistan Region to visit imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan amid an ongoing peace process with the Turkish state.

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