AFP – Kurdish fighters have begun withdrawing from Turkey into their stronghold in Iraq, Kurdish sources say, in a major step towards ending a decades-long conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. The pullout is the first visible sign that months of fragile talks between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could succeed in ending 29 years of guerrilla war. ‘We know that they have started moving,’ Selahattin Demirtas, a pro-Kurdish MP actively involved in the process, told AFP. About 2,000 rebel fighters are expected to begin leaving Turkey on foot, travelling through the mountainous border zone to reach their safe havens in the inhospitable Qandil mountains in northern Iraq. There they will join 5,000 fellow militants at the command base which has been used as a springboard for attacks against Turkish security forces. Read Article
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