Kurdish Militants Announce Pullout -- Euronews
Kurdish PKK militants who have fought for autonomy in Turkey for decades will begin withdrawing within two weeks. Kurdistan Workers Party commander Murat Karayilan said the pullout would begin on May 8. He held a news conference in Qandil in northern Iraq. The PKK said the forces would withdraw to Iraq.
The announcement bolsters a peace process launched some six months ago, in which jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan has been in talks with Turkish intelligence agents in his island prison near Istanbul to end a conflict that has cost some 40,000 lives.
Human Rights Watch has also urged that justice must be done swiftly in cases of state-perpetrated violence in the conflict.
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