Erdogan ally calls for official status for jailed Kurdish militant leader
Bahceli said the jailed PKK leader should have a defined role as lawmakers debate legal steps to sustain talks that have killed more than 40,000 people.
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Erdogan ally wants jailed Kurdish militant leader to have official status
ANKARA, May 5 - Turkish nationalist party leader Devlet Bahceli said on Tuesday the jailed head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should be given an official role to help advance a peace process aimed at ending a decades-long conflict. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Erdogan ally calls for official status for jailed Kurdish militant leader
ANKARA, May 5 (Reuters) - Turkish nationalist party leader Devlet Bahceli said on Tuesday the jailed head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should be given an official role to help advance a peace process aimed at ending a decades-long conflict.Bahceli, a close ally of President Tayyip Erdogan who was instrumental in initiating the talks, made the proposal in a parliamentary speech after pro-Kurdish lawmakers accused the government …
Müsavat Dervişoğlu reacted strongly to MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli's call for "status for PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan," saying, "You have no shame; I am ashamed for you. May God guide you and deal with you as He sees fit."
MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, in his address to the Grand National Assembly on May 5th, supported granting PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan the "status" he desired, as requested by the Democratic Left Party (DEM), suggesting that his title be "Peace Process and Politicization Coordinator," in order to advance the "Turkey without terrorism" process. The MHP leader, who a few years ago called Öcalan a "baby killer" and demanded President Tayyip Erdoğan rei…
Bahçeli proposes ‘peace process coordinator’ status for jailed PKK leader Öcalan - Turkish Minute
Devlet Bahçeli, the chairman of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has proposed that jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan be given a formal role in Turkey’s ongoing peace initiative, suggesting the title of “coordinator for the peace process and transition to politics,” the Anka news agency reported. Speaking at his party’s parliamentary […]
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