Kandil

Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has called on senior figures from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) to consider his call for a cease-fire and a restart of peace talks, speaking to reporters on Sept. 13 in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r?s central Sur district, where a curfew had been imposed.

Right after the news President Tayyip Erdo?an was going to meet Parliamentary Speaker ?smet Y?lmaz to discuss an interim government to take the country to another election in six months, the news hit the wires about the killing of eight Turkish soldiers in a bomb ambush near the eastern city of Siirt by suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK).

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants will not disarm or withdraw from Turkey as long as Ankara conducts ongoing airstrikes against PKK camps in Turkey and northern Iraq, according to an umbrella organization of Kurdish groups that includes the PKK.