Kurdish Rebels Surrender as Turkey Reaches Out -- Wall Street Journal
ISTANBUL -- In the first concrete sign that months of efforts by Turkey's government to end a 25-year Kurdish insurgency could bear fruit, eight Kurdish rebels crossed over the border from Iraq on Monday to give themselves up.
Accompanied by 26 Kurdish villagers who fled Turkey more than a decade ago, the members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, were detained by police and taken in for questioning by Turkish prosecutors.
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My Comment: The Turks and its Kurdish community still have a long way to go for any chance of peace succeeding. But this is a positive first step.
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