ANKARA: Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Friday that peace-related laws were needed for a transition to democratic integration in Turkiye, in a statement read out a year after he called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to end its decades-old insurgency and disband.
That landmark call fueled hopes for an end to a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people, sowed deep divisions and stymied development in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkiye, but progress has been slow. Ocalan’s statement was read out at a press conference by the pro-Kurdish DEM Party.
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Jailed Kurdish militant boss says peace laws needed for democratic integration in Turkiye
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Jailed Kurdish militant boss says peace laws needed for democratic integration in Turkiye
- That landmark call fueled hopes for an end to a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people, sowed deep divisions and stymied development in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkiye
UN urges Middle East warring parties to ‘give peace a chance’
- The United Nations rights chief called on Friday for cool heads to prevail in the Middle East and urged the warring sides to pull back and give peace a chance
GENEVA: The United Nations rights chief called on Friday for cool heads to prevail in the Middle East and urged the warring sides to pull back and give peace a chance.
“The world urgently needs to see steps to contain and extinguish this blaze — but instead we are only seeing more inflammatory, bellicose rhetoric, more bombings, more destruction, killings and escalation, that fuels it further,” Volker Turk told reporters.
“I urge the states involved to take immediate steps to de-escalate, to give peace a chance. And on other states to call clearly on those involved to pull back. Cool heads must prevail if we are to prevent further terror and devastation for civilians.”
“The world urgently needs to see steps to contain and extinguish this blaze — but instead we are only seeing more inflammatory, bellicose rhetoric, more bombings, more destruction, killings and escalation, that fuels it further,” Volker Turk told reporters.
“I urge the states involved to take immediate steps to de-escalate, to give peace a chance. And on other states to call clearly on those involved to pull back. Cool heads must prevail if we are to prevent further terror and devastation for civilians.”
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