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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish PM promises peace with Kurds, active diplomacy |
| 2014-09-02 |
| [ARABNEWS] Turkey's new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday vowed to seek a peace deal with Kurdish rebels with new vigor and pursue an assertive foreign policy where Ankara would set its own agenda. Davutoglu, the former foreign minister who took over as premier from new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... last week, reaffirmed ambitious goals to make Turkey a top 10 global economy and member of the EU by 2023 as he presented the program of his new government. But he said special priority would be paid to making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels seeking self-rule for Kurds in the southeast of Turkey, to end a three-decade insurgency that has claimed some 40,000 lives. "We will carry out the grinding of the peace processor with a determination which will change the fate of the country. We will press on with efforts to make sure all segments of the society can embrace it," Davutoglu told parliament. "We will be act in a more decisive manner and tear down the walls between our nation and the state." Erdogan, who was elected president this month, launched clandestine negotiations with tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012. But they stalled in September last year when the rebels accused him of failing to deliver on reform. However, ars longa, vita brevis... hopes have been raised in recent weeks of a new breakthrough and Ocalan has said that the conflict is "coming to an end." Davutoglu -- who was criticized by some analysts for pursuing an overly ambitious foreign policy while top diplomat -- said Turkey would carry on with an assertive diplomacy. "We will be not be a country whose agenda is set by other countries," he said. |
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