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| The Grand Turk |
| Pro-Kurdish party leader calls for steps to halt Turkey violence |
| 2015-08-09 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The leader of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's pro-Kurdish HDP urged the holy warrior Kurdistan Workers Party on Saturday to "remove its finger from the trigger" and said the government should launch talks to halt a surge in violence. The holy warrior PKK announced it was stepping up attacks in mid-July, saying Turkish forces were violating a 2013 ceasefire. Turkey began an air campaign against PKK camps in northern Iraq on July 24. Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas told news hounds: "Today we call to both sides: the PKK must immediately remove its finger from the trigger and declare it will observe the ceasefire." Speaking in the southeastern city of Van, a day after six people were killed in festivities between security forces and bully boyz in the mainly Kurdish southeast, he said the government must halt security operations and revive a grinding of the peace processor launched with locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012. |
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